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Tullie Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$680kPhilanthropy$136kArts & Culture$91kYouth Development$40kEducation$20kHuman Services$17kInternational$11kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY$175,000
DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS$5,000
MS GIFT DONOR ADVISED FUND$2,600
REBECKHA LYNN WHITEFIELD FOUNDATION INC$1,071
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP KESEM: $100 → 14%NEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50 → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $100 → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $5k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%CASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA: $250 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
RI
CA
UT
AZ
TN
SC
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$823k · 22 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
40

Total granted

$823k
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+9%

Still filing today

77%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • LJ
    LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $556k · revenue +45%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO
    4× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +18%
  • TA
    THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • FO
    Friends of North Attleboro Monuments Incorporated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · 85% of their budget
  • KU
    KUWASHA USA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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3
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
4
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
5
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
6
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
7
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
8
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
9
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
10
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Rebeckha Lynn Whitefield Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Veteran Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionSenior Support ServicesLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Food Pantries & AssistancePublic University Foundatio…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Land Conservation Organizat…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Jewish Community FederationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts OrganizationsClassical Music EnsemblesCancer Support OrganizationsYouth Development Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr11%74%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,929

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — $556,000 · OtherLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGYMS GIFT DONOR ADVISED FUND — $132,601 · OtherMS GIFT DONOR ADVISED FUND+39 more — $45,819 · Other+39 moreNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEA…The Clearity Foundation — $10,500 · HealthThe Clearity …Resounding Joy Inc — $7,310 · HealthResounding Jo…+2 more — $670 · HealthFriends of North Attleboro Monuments Incorporated — $50,000 · Public BenefitBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $26,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE — $12,800 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureDEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS DMCC — $11,500 · Human ServicesNEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANS — $2,500 · Human Services+4 more — $500 · Human ServicesNew York University — $5,000 · EducationRebeckha Lynn Whitefield Foundation — $4,071 · EducationTorrey Pines High School Foundation Inc — $2,800 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationCanyon Crest Academy Foundation Inc — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $250 · Education
Other$734,420Health$118,480Public Benefit$50,000Youth Development$40,000Arts & Culture$39,800Human Services$14,500Education$14,121

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — $556,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of North Attleboro Monuments Incorporated — $50,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE — $12,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS DMCC — $11,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Clearity Foundation — $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKUWASHA USA — $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetDEL MAR FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetResounding Joy Inc — $7,310 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNew York University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebeckha Lynn Whitefield Foundation — $4,071 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTorrey Pines High School Foundation Inc — $2,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANS — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $2,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanyon Crest Academy Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $536 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD TOMORROW FUND — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $230 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $146 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREISENBACH PHILANTHROPIES INC — $107 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE TRAIN — $75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWANDER PROJECT — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL CITY PIT BULLS — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO JUNIOR THEATRE — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…Walter J & Betty C Za…Mandell Weiss Charita…The Patricia and Chri…French Fund Samuel Ka…Girard FoundationSamuel I & John Henry…The Parker Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA31× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust · The Patricia and Christopher Weil Family Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Girard Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Parker 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 Tullie Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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