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TKS Private Foundation at a glance

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TKS Private Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$510k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$700kHealth$610kFood & Nutrition$150kEducation$140kHousing & Shelter$30kEnvironment$15kHuman Services$3k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $470k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Curing Kids Cancer$220,000
Urban Growers Collective$100,000
Holy Trinity Classical Christian School$100,000
St George Episcopal Church$50,000
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $830k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 14%Curing Kids Cancer: $220k → 14%American Red Cross: $200k → 14%Curing Kids Cancer: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $70k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 3 repeat orgs$438k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$1.2M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+99%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2017–2023 · $600k · revenue +46%
  • RS
    Roper St Francis Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $380k · revenue +3%
  • CK
    Curing Kids Cancer Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $230k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • AR
    American Red Cross
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • OP
    One-Eighty Placegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +63%
  • SI
    SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +99%
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
Roper St Francis Healthcare

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
2
Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital Inc

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
Roper Hospital Inc

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
5
Roper St Francis Physicians Network

Healing all people with compassion, faith and excellence.

Health
6
Clinical Biotechnology Research Institute at Rsfh

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
7
South Carolina Research Foundation

the south carolina research foundation operates for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, the university of south carolina. These activities include but are not limited to promoting, encouraging, and aiding scientific research…

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8
Roper St Francis Hospital - Berkeley Inc

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
9
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
10
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

—
11
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roper St Francis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Curing Kids Cancer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $600,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters an…Curing Kids Cancer Inc: $230,000 · Human ServicesCuring Kids Cancer IncRoper St Francis Foundation: $380,000 · HealthRoper St Francis Foundatio…American Red Cross: $100,000 · OtherAmerican R…St George Episcopal Church: $50,000 · OtherSt George …+1 more: $2,500 · OtherHOLY TRINITY CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationHOLY TRIN…University of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $40,000 · EducationUniversit…URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionOne-Eighty Place: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterSUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$830,000Health$380,000Other$152,500Education$140,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Community Improvement$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $600,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $380,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCuring Kids Cancer Inc: $230,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOLY TRINITY CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 TKS Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from TKS Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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