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Treehouse Family 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.

$19M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$21MPhilanthropy$14MEducation$5.8MHuman Services$500kPublic Safety & Disaster$245kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $610k
  • $250k+3 grants · $19M
$142,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$141M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD$15,134,874
MEETING STREET SCHOOLS$3,100,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$500,000
NEIGHBORHOOD WELLNESS FOUNDATION$150,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$142,000
Individual grant recipient$125,000
SACRAMENTO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER$75,000
BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION$67,828
CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND$50,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD: $15.1M → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $284k → 16%CHOC FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $200k → 12%CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $50k → 17%BLUFFTON JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS: $245k → 10%MEETING STREET SCHOOLS: $3.1M → 12%PHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND: $9.2M → 4%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 11%THE BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD: $3.6M → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $142k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $150k → 12%CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $50k → 17%MEETING STREET SCHOOLS: $900k → 12%PHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND: $4.7M → 4%THE BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD: $1.9M → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $142k → 16%SACRAMENTO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $75k → 12%CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $50k → 17%BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $68k → 12%SACRAMENTO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $75k → 12%CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $50k → 17%BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $13k → 12%LOS RIOS COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $172k → 12%SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $250k → 17%SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY: $125k → 12%SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $100k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE: $25k → 12%SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY: $125k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41M · 10 repeat orgs$972k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$41M
$472k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+56%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MS
    MEETING STREET SCHOOLS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +14%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $568k · revenue +32%
  • SA
    SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • BJ
    BLUFFTON JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS
    one grant, 2023 · $245k
  • LR
    Los Rios Colleges Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $172k · revenue +27%
  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +57%
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
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
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
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
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
8
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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9
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
10
California State Student Association

CSSA as a student-led organization strives to improve the lives of California State University (CSU) students by advocating for student needs and engaging students in systemwide, state, and federal higher education policy making.

Education
11
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Neighborhood Wellness Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Broad Institute Inc: $20,676,220 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc+1 more: $25,000 · HealthPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND: $13,890,448 · OtherPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND+4 more: $817,050 · Other+4 moreMEETING STREET SCHOOLS: $4,000,000 · EducationMEETING STREET …NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $568,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UN…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $350,000 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY…THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $200,000 · Education+2 more: $105,971 · EducationNeighborhood Wellness Foundation: $350,000 · Community ImprovementTHE NATIONAL FOUNDATION TO END CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$20,701,220Other$14,707,498Education$5,723,971Community Improvement$350,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $20,676,220 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMEETING STREET SCHOOLS: $4,000,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $568,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood Wellness Foundation: $350,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLos Rios Colleges Foundation: $172,050 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSacramento LGBT Community Center: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $80,971 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FOUNDATION TO END CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Sierra Health Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sierra Health FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sierra Health Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Treehouse Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Treehouse Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 16 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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