How much does Tornquist Family Foundation give?

Tornquist Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $332,517 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Tornquist Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (11%), Food & Nutrition (10%), International (8%).

Who are Tornquist Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($108k), Society of St Vincent de Paul Rockford Council ($105k), Midwest Food Bank Nfp ($98k).

Does Tornquist Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tornquist Family Foundation 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 Tornquist Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, Paul a Funk Foundation, Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Tornquist Family Foundation based?

Tornquist Family Foundation is based in IL.

Tornquist Family Foundation

Tornquist Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$333k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$193k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$195kFood & Nutrition$175kInternational$141kHuman Services$128kHealth$38kPublic Benefit$26kHousing & Shelter$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0

02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k36 grants · $57k
$10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$50k–250k2 grants · $248k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$903k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
GOYA MINISTRIES	$2,500
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY	$2,500
HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$2,500
FINCA INTERNATIONAL	$2,000
SALVATION ARMY	$2,000
ST JUDE	$1,500

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 45 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+18%

Still filing today

67%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesPublic BenefitReligionHealthArts & CultureOther

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

SO
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL
4× · 2022–2025 · $105k · revenue +56%
MF
MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP
8× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +143%
MA
MINISTRY AND MORE INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +308%

Funded once

SV
St Vincent DePaul
one grant, 2019 · $30k
FL
FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH OF MCLEAN COUNTY
one grant, 2020 · $5k
YL
YOUNG LIFE
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +18%

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.

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals

People Inc

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,…

Human Services

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health

Corus International Inc

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…

Human Services

The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International

Npr Foundation

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…

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Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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Amnesty International of the Usa Inc

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…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/46

Grantees still filing

31/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,247,127International$135,700Religion$127,000Human Services$121,950Crime & Legal$73,000Public Benefit$25,600Philanthropy$6,500

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

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA14.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Tornquist Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tornquist Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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