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Tornquist Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $248k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $193,249 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $55,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| MINISTRY & MORE INC | $12,500 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $8,500 |
| SPREAD TRUTH MINISTRIES INC | $7,500 |
| HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| RECYCLING FURNITURE FOR FAMILIES | $4,000 |
| THE BABY FOLD | $3,250 |
| FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY | $2,500 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GOYA MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| FINCA INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL4× · 2022–2025 · $105k · revenue +56%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP8× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +143%
- MAMINISTRY AND MORE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +308%
Funded once
- SVSt Vincent DePaulone grant, 2019 · $30k
- FLFAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH OF MCLEAN COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- YLYOUNG LIFEone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +18%
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
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…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
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…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Amnesty international of the usa, inc. is the united states section of amnesty international - a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. (continued on schedule o).organization's mission…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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. 46 of the 73 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 SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY AND MORE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds SPREAD TRUTH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BABY FOLD ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE DREAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOYA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · Paul a Funk Foundation · Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · The Growmark Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Tornquist Family 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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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