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Tomlinson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k4 grants · $483k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TERI CAMPUS OF LIFE | $500,000 |
| YMCA | $300,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ADA COUNTY | $250,000 |
| INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING | $250,000 |
| VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES | $200,000 |
| JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH | $150,000 |
| BLUUM INC (IDAHO CHARTER SCHOOL NETWORK) | $83,333 |
| TREASURE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TITERI Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +19%
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO3× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +30%
- IYIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +94%
Funded once
- JCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $220k · revenue +35%
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 330 DANIEL WEBSTER COUNCIL INCone grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue -6%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2017 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The channel islands ymca is a charitable organization providing programs based upon christian principles to people of all ages, races, religious beliefs and economic status, to promote youth development, healthy living and social…
Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…
The ymca of san diego county is a nonprofit with a mission to nurture a healthy spirit, mind, and body so all can thrive while honoring our faith-based heritage.
Yai's mission is to empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to live the lives they truly desire. we provide a wide range of supports and services that are person centered and person directed. by seeing beyond…
The arc of san diego supports and empowers persons with disabilities to achieve their life goals.
To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
To instill values in young people, to prepare them to make ethical choices during their lives, and to assist them in achieving their full potential.
To partner with youth, families, adults and communities to reach their full potential and is achieved through comprehensive and integrated programming in the areas of child and youth development; youth, adult and family wellness and…
The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
Provide social services to people with developmental disabilities.
New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.
Boys Republic provides both residential and non-residential youth services to disadvantaged, at-risk young people throughout California. It operates six facilities, all in Southern California: a 200 acre residential campus, school, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Youth Ranch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lamp Ministry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TERI Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 330 DANIEL WEBSTER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LAMP MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds San Diego Brain Injury Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF ESCONDIDO HIDDEN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tomlinson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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