· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
240 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. 240 of the 355 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tosa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tosa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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