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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.

$131k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Tygdh Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$131k36%
FY202424$82k17%
FY202328$175k25%
FY202232$227k50%
FY202124$138k25%
FY202022$108k36%
FY201917$122k29%
FY20189$115k33%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$345kHealth$234kEducation$177kFood & Nutrition$98kHuman Services$66kAnimals$64kHousing & Shelter$63kYouth Development$58kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
IL
MI
NY
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
DE
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($802k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tygdh Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlbemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $41,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCharlottesville Free Clinic: $37,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFish Inc: $36,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetEmerald Youth Foundation: $32,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity Health System Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShelter for Help in Emergency Inc: $29,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHelen Ross McNabb Center Inc: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWesley House Community Center Co: $28,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $18,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYoung-Williams Animal Center of East Ten: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMidwest Access Coalition: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFood Bank of Delaware Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSertoma Centre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies Moving Forward: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKnox Area Rescue Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Carolinas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKnoxville Dream Center: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIsaiah 117 House: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Love Kitchen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelen Ross McNabb Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Faile Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFamily Promise of Northern New Castle County: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Faile Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFree Medical Clinic of America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillcrest Healthcare Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHabitot Childrens Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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 Melrose FoundationTN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Tygdh Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tygdh 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.

About Tygdh Foundation

How much does Tygdh Foundation give?
Tygdh Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $130,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tygdh Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (28%), Health (19%), Education (15%).
Who are Tygdh Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Albemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ($41k), Charlottesville Free Clinic ($38k), Fish Inc ($36k).
Does Tygdh Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tygdh Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tygdh Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Melrose Foundation, Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee, East Tennessee Foundation.
Where is Tygdh Foundation based?
Tygdh Foundation is based in KY.

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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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