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Tjootjim Foundation at a glance

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Tjootjim Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$40kFood & Nutrition$34kAnimals$25kCrime & Legal$21kReligion$15kRecreation & Sports$15kEducation$14kScience & Tech$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$7,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$806k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEYOND HOUSING$40,000
TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS$10,000
KU ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION$10,000
HAWAII FOODBANK$7,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%APOPO: $2k → 14%APOPO: $2k → 14%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $1k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
CO
MO
AZ
KS
DC
HI
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 95% of Tjootjim Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 21% of the giving stays in HI; by stated purpose, 3%.

Tjootjim Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18k · 3 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +402% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
39

Total granted

$18k
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+402%
+15%

Still filing today

67%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +28%
  • AU
    APOPO US INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +402%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • SL
    ST LOUIS NEEDIEST CASES
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • RG
    RAIN GARDENS TO THE RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
3
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
4
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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11
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
12
Wikimedia Foundation Inc

The mission of the wikimedia foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. (see schedule…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Orleans Sponsoring Committee -Together New Orleans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST LOUIS NEEDIEST CASES: $20,000 · OtherST LOUIS NEEDIEST CASESRAIN GARDENS TO THE RESCUE: $19,565 · OtherRAIN GARDENS TO THE RESCUEIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSECOND HELPINGS - INDIANAPOLIS: $10,000 · OtherSECOND HELPINGS - INDIANAPOLISFRAGMENTS OF HOPE: $10,000 · OtherFRAGMENTS OF HOPEElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $10,000 · OtherElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc+27 more: $54,333 · Other+27 moreBEYOND HOUSING INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterBEYOND HOUSING I…HAWAII FOODBANK INC: $13,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBA…OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION FOO…ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOO…Forest Park Forever Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentLAHUI FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $10,000 · EducationDESTINATION IMAGINATION COLORADO INC: $1,050 · EducationNEW ORLEANS SPONSORING COMMITTEE -TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSIGNAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $500 · Community ImprovementACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$163,898Housing & Shelter$40,000Food & Nutrition$33,000Environment$13,000Education$11,050Community Improvement$10,500Philanthropy$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS SPONSORING COMMITTEE -TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Bicycle Works Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPOPO US INC: $4,050 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDO IT FOR THE LOVE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARASITES WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOKONUT KOALITION: $1,075 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDESTINATION IMAGINATION COLORADO INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreenet Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST PRISONER PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tjootjim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tjootjim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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