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Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008

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.

$47k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
39%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$16,155
Organizations funded a year
16 to 23
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$21k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$47k32%
FY202418$43k39%
FY202317$77k24%
FY202223$50k39%
FY202118$55k50%
FY202016$46kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$137kYouth Development$73kHealth$27kArts & Culture$15kEducation$11kReligion$8kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mobile Baykeeper Inc$37,83541%
South Alabama Land Trust Inc$35,37461%
Lemhi Regional Land Trust$17,00051%
River Discovery Inc$15,00055%
Dog River Clearwater Revival$15,00064%
Friends of the Halstead Inc$11,50023%
The Exceptional Foundation of the Gulf Coast Inc$10,00050%
Alabama Coastal Foundation Inc$6,35050%
Feeding the Gulf Coast$5,25030%
Friends of Perdido Bay Inc$5,0001n/a
Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMobile Baykeeper Inc: $37,835 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSouth Alabama Land Trust Inc: $35,374 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLemhi Regional Land Trust: $17,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetRiver Discovery Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetDog River Clearwater Revival: $15,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetFriends of the Halstead Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe Exceptional Foundation of the Gulf Coast Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAlabama Coastal Foundation Inc: $6,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of North Alabama: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Baldwin Literacy Council: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAlabama Rivers Alliance Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation Inc: $2,850 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRuff Wilson Youth Organization Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Literacy Services: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMobile Symphony Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBayside Academy Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Baldwin County Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Family Village Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRedside Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWild Alabama Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBaldwin County Education Coalition: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEastern Shore Art Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProdisee Pantry Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairhope Film Festival Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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 Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Impact 100 Baldwin County · Mapp Family Foundation · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Rc Craft Family Foundation · The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation Inc · Snook Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sybil and White Smith Foundation · Mw Smith Jr 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.

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About Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008

How much does Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 give?
Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 reported 19 grants totaling $47,295 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (43%), Youth Development (23%), Health (8%).
Who are Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mobile Baykeeper Inc ($38k), South Alabama Land Trust Inc ($35k), Lemhi Regional Land Trust ($17k).
Does Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee, Impact 100 Baldwin County.
Where is Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 based?
Tonsmeire Charitable Foundation Trust 2008 is based in AL.

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 51 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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