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Tygdh 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of TYGDH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH CLINIC | $30,000 |
| THE DEPARTMENT OF OBGYN RESIDENCY | $15,000 |
| POSITIVELY LIVING CHOICE HEALTH | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $7,500 |
| UT MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST | $5,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR | $5,000 |
| EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FEEDING THE CAROLINAS | $5,000 |
| FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD | $5,000 |
| DIAPER BANK OF NC | $5,000 |
| WESLEY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE SPCA | $5,000 |
| FISH | $5,000 |
| BEARDEN METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- CFCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC6× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +5%
- FIFISH INC5× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue ×12
- EYEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $28k
- MAMIDWEST ACCESS COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -43%
- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +30%
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 provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
The mission of family health center of marshfield, inc. is to provide access to high quality health care services for the underserved and to enhance the health of our communities.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To serve those in need by acquiring and distributing food, grocery items, and government commodities through a network of charitable partnering agencies in 42 kentucky counties.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To promote the health of people in north central washington by providing access to health care to persons otherwise excluded from existing health care systems.
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knox Area Rescue Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Faile 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 78 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 ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FISH INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO ↗
- Who funds Empty Stocking Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER OF EAST TEN ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Carolinas ↗
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 Melrose Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · East Tennessee Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ted & Drama Russell Family Foundation C/O East Tn Foundation · Jane L Pettway Foundation · Pya Foundation · The Claude and Betty Harris 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 Tygdh 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.
- Family Promise of Northern New Castle County — 73% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% 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.
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