· Private foundation
Towerbrook 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 $10k17 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATION | $333,332 |
| THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREAT BRITAIN | $50,000 |
| SEO LONDON LTD | $33,392 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $28,460 |
| PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATION | $20,227 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $19,083 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $15,000 |
| THE PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| MINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC | $15,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $12,250 |
| OHIOHEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COSTA FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MADISON HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 US giving — 62% of grant dollars ($5.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 38% that went abroad ($3.3M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $639k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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
Beyond the US — 38% of all-years giving ($3.3M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Towerbrook Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 39% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
CITY YEAR INC4× · 2017–2020 · $540k · revenue +15%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2020–2021 · $510k · revenue +21%- USUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- DDreamchasingone grant, 2020 · $504k
- IHImperial Health Charityone grant, 2020 · $501k
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +28%
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 32 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) — 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 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.
122 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. 122 of the 163 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 CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR INCLUSIVE CAPITALISM ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Madison House ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT NEXT INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN TORONTO INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BYRAM HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · The Tapestry Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley 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 Towerbrook 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.
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.