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Towerbrook Foundation at a glance

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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.

$760k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.6MInternational$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MHealth$807kPublic Safety & Disaster$510kPhilanthropy$375kHuman Services$225kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $223k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $333k
$9,603
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC$15,000
THE PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$15,000
THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$15,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$12,250
OHIOHEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
COSTA FAMILY FOUNDATION$10,000
MADISON HOUSE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EmpowerHer Inc: $300 → 8%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $750 → 14%TriMedx Foundation: $5k → 16%Madison House: $10k → 8%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $180 → 6%Wounded Warrior Project: $150 → 14%The Citizens Foundation - USA: $10k → 14%MADISON HOUSE: $10k → 8%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MADISON HOUSE: $10k → 8%MADISON HOUSE: $10k → 8%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%Madison House: $10k → 8%MADISON HOUSE: $10k → 8%Madison House: $6k → 8%Safe Families for Children: $750 → 14%Covenant House: $750 → 17%Covenant House: $750 → 17%CHILDREN'S GLOBAL HEALTH FUND: $450 → 17%Avail NYC: $900 → 17%Avail NYC: $150 → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $100k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $100k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $100k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $100k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $75k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 38% of all-years giving ($3.3M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$3.2M · 30 grants
Spain$16k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Towerbrook Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 39%.

Towerbrook Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 40% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 56 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
93

Total granted

$6.0M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+31%

Still filing today

77%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyArts & 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

  • CITY YEAR INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $540k · revenue +15%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $510k · revenue +21%
  • US
    UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • D
    Dreamchasing
    one grant, 2020 · $504k
  • IH
    Imperial Health Charity
    one grant, 2020 · $501k
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +28%
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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Fordham University

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.

Education
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.
05the grantee network

122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/122
Grantees still filing
91/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATION: $1,059,748 · OtherIMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATIONCITY YEAR INC: $540,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCDreamchasing: $503,546 · OtherDreamchasingImperial Health Charity: $500,824 · OtherImperial Health CharityHabitat for Humanity: $450,000 · OtherHabitat for HumanityIndividual grant recipient: $301,715 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $270,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREAT BRITAIN: $250,000 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $192,905 · OtherCity Year New York: $175,000 · Other+75 more: $709,124 · Other+75 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $510,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOU…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $82,250 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HU…+6 more: $23,525 · InternationalUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $500,000 · EducationUNCOMMON SC…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $130,001 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $120,000 · EducationTHE NEW YOR…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $34,999 · Education+21 more: $107,099 · Education+21 moreTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $475,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesMadison House: $66,000 · Human Services+10 more: $22,630 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR INCLUSIVE CAPITALISM: $300,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $166,666 · Community ImprovementBoston Foundation Inc: $225,935 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $128,110 · PhilanthropyPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $25,500 · PhilanthropyVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $37,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $7,659 · HealthFRIENDS OF JACLYN INC: $7,500 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $7,500 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,950 · Health+12 more: $10,278 · Health
Other$4,952,862International$1,115,775Education$892,099Human Services$638,630Community Improvement$466,666Philanthropy$454,545Health$115,387

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITY YEAR INC: $540,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $510,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $475,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR INCLUSIVE CAPITALISM: $300,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $225,935 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $166,666 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $130,001 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $128,110 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $120,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $82,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMadison House: $66,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC: $57,626 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $57,500 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetENVIRONMENT NEXT INC: $57,401 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN TORONTO INC: $45,926 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $34,999 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LIVING HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBYRAM HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetST JOSEPH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPangea Legal Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOSTA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $7,659 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JACLYN INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUT FOR UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS CONFERENCE INC: $7,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $5,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRIMEDX FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…American Express Foun…The Tapestry Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Viking Global Foundat…The Warburg Pincus Fo…Select Equity Group F…The Lazard Charitable…Charities Aid Foundat…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Founda…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY31.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home