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Tortimaki 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 $10k23 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIGHT TO PLAY | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| SAVE THE SOUND INC | $20,000 |
| SAVE THE SOUND INC | $15,000 |
| BACKCOUNTRY MEDICAL GUIDES | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| IRIS FUND | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI | $10,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $10,000 |
| CITY HARVEST INC | $10,000 |
| STOWE LAND TRUST | $7,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND A | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- STSAVE THE SOUND5× · 2021–2025 · $128k · revenue +11%
Trustees of Tufts College6× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +50%- TBTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- IMINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +17%
- JPJTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -43%
- WIWater Is Life Incone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Sisters Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Iris Fund 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 48 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 SPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds STOWE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BACKCOUNTRY MEDICAL GUIDES ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Larchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BARTH SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THIRTEEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STOWE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Iris Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AT HOME ON THE SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds My Sisters Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Larchmont Friends Of The Family ↗
- Who funds ARS NOVA THEATER I INC ↗
- Who funds Water Is Life Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Tortimaki 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust — 10% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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