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Toomey Foundation for the Natural Sciences at a glance

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Toomey Foundation for the Natural Sciences

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$51kArts & Culture$35kScience & Tech$29kEnvironment$8k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$604k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM$20,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LOWELL OBSERVATORY: $15k → 16%APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB: $2k → 16%BIGHORN BASIS PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $3k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $6k → 11%ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $5k → 6%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $6k → 17%MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%CALUSA NATURE CENTER: $1k → 11%CARTHAGE COLLEGE: $11k → 10%PALEONTOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA: $5k → 24%WYOMING DINOSAUR CENTER: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM: $20k → 17%PREHISTORIC INDIAN VILLAGE: $5k → 14%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $3k → 17%CARTHAGE COLLEGE: $2k → 10%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

WI
NY
MA
WY
SD
PA
CA
AZ
NM
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51k · 3 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
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Total granted

$51k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureScience & TechEnvironmentOther
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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +56%
  • CARTHAGE COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +3%
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    2× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • LO
    LOWELL OBSERVATORY
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -41%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • PA
    PALEONTOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
2
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
3
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
4
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
5
Cook Museum of Natural Science
Arts & Culture
6
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Discover Life in America Inc

Dlia will develop a model for research in biodiversity and will use the knowledge to develop and disseminate information to encourage the discovery, understanding, preservation, and enjoyment of natural resources.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bighorn Basin Paleotological Institute. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $28,705 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $13,682 · EducationCARTHAGE COLLEGEADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationADELPHI UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING GEOLOGICAL MUSE…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $6,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAPALEONTOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA: $5,000 · OtherPALEONTOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIAIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION IN…+1 more: $1,200 · OtherLOWELL OBSERVATORY: $15,000 · Science & TechLOWELL OBSERVATO…BIGHORN BASIN PALEOTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $3,000 · Science & TechBIGHORN BASIN PA…American Museum of Natural History: $8,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Muse…WYOMING DINOSAUR CENTER INC: $3,594 · Arts & CultureWYOMING DINOS…MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEW…Appalachian Mountain Club: $2,200 · Environment
Education$47,387Other$41,200Science & Tech$18,000Arts & Culture$14,594Environment$2,200

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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $28,705 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOWELL OBSERVATORY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $13,682 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING DINOSAUR CENTER INC: $3,594 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $2,200 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Toomey Foundation for the Natural Sciences funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Toomey Foundation for the Natural Sciences. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Toomey Foundation for the Natural Sciences?

Find your warmest path to Toomey Foundation for the Natural Sciences through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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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