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Tosa Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k62 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $510k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+15 grants · $128M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - TAUPO | $29,346,141 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $26,000,000 |
| FUND FOR WISCONSIN SCHOLARS | $25,000,000 |
| MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $25,000,000 |
| ALVERNO COLLEGE | $10,000,000 |
| AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,403,213 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $1,269,784 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $976,085 |
| BOOK TRUST | $813,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $600,000 |
| CITY YEAR OF MILWAUKEE | $579,536 |
| MALAWI CHILDREN'S VILLAGE | $500,000 |
| CITY YEAR | $300,000 |
| SUICIDE AWARENESS VOICES OF EDUCATION | $250,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
183 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2024, 97 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M 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
- FFFund for Wisconsin Scholars Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $72M · revenue +936% · 65% of their budget
- TMTHE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC4× · 2020–2023 · $50M · revenue +145% · 95% of their budget
ALVERNO COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +2%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM MILWAUKEEone grant, 2020 · $2.0M
- JGJOBTRAIN - GRANT OF 25000 SHARES OF CISCOone grant, 2023 · $1.3M
- ALAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION - GRANT OF 20000 SHS CISCOone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 8% 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.
240 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 240 of the 355 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fund for Wisconsin Scholars Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds GRANITE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds Speare Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MALAWI CHILDREN'S VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
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: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cocchiaro Family Foundation · Sand Hill 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 Tosa 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.
- World Neighbors Inc — 46% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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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