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Tyl 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.

$5.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$7.1MReligion$4.7MCommunity Improvement$4.4MYouth Development$3.8MPhilanthropy$2.0MHousing & Shelter$855kInternational$548kPublic Benefit$524kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $460k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.8M
$20,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD OF CORONADO$3,465,000
SAVE OUR YOUTH$350,000
CROSSPURPOSE$175,000
SERVANT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$132,000
CHRIST'S BODY MINISTRIES$125,000
THE MASTER'S APPRENTICE$120,000
NORTH LITTLETON PROMISE$100,000
GENERATEHOPE$100,000
SOUTH SUBURBAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH$100,000
PROMISED LAND LIVING$50,000
BENSON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$50,000
DOWNING STREET FOUNDATION$50,000
PROVIDENCE NETWORK$50,000
SEVEN STEP MINISTRIES$40,000
GRAHAM MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GENERATEHOPE: $320k → 11%SEVEN SISTERS INTL: $48k → 9%GENERATEHOPE: $100k → 11%SEVEN SISTERS INTL: $20k → 9%GENERATEHOPE: $15k → 11%SEVEN SISTERS INTL: $20k → 9%GENERATEHOPE: $3k → 11%SEVEN SISTERS INTL: $15k → 9%SEVEN SISTERS INTL: $15k → 9%SEVEN SISTERS INTL: $15k → 9%SEVEN SISTERS INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 9%SEVEN SISTERS INTL: $8k → 9%SEVEN SISTERS INTL: $5k → 9%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $110k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $90k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $35k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $15k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $10k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $10k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $10k → 7%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 12%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 12%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 12%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 12%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 12%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 12%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 12%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 12%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $50k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $30k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $25k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $25k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $20k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $15k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $15k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $15k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $1.1M → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $60k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $55k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $55k → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $38k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $33k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $33k → 12%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MI
NY
SD
OH
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
DE
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 90 repeat orgs$7.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

90 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
46

Total granted

$24M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+10%

Still filing today

66%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M 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
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • C
    CROSSPURPOSE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +236%
  • TC
    THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3.3M · revenue +74%
  • VC
    VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.2M · revenue +38%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH SAN DIE
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • MH
    MISSION HILLS CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
The Denver Institute

To prepare people to serve God and others in their daily work so that workplaces and cities are transformed.

Religion
3
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
4
Discovery Christian Church of Colorado

Make disciples of Jesus that make new disciples

Religion
5
Summit Ministries Inc

Summit ministries is an educational christian ministry with the purpose of equipping tomorrow's servant leaders to analyze competing worldviews and champion the christian faith, inspiring each one to love god with all his heart, soul,…

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6
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
7
Coalition for Christian Outreach

The cco (coalition for christian outreach) is an interdenominational campus ministry organization with a mission of "transforming college students to transform the world." the cco is supported primarily through donor contributions and…

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8
Saturate

Our hope is to see every church, every person, and every place saturated with the gospel of jesus christ in key cities and regions throughout north america.

Human Services
9
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of jesus christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
10
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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11
Denver Academy of Torah

Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…

Education
12
Explore God Network
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Upper Colorado River Alliance. 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

89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 143 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/89
Grantees still filing
55/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $3,267,500 · EducationTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOLVALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $2,741,795 · EducationVALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $225,000 · Education+10 more: $301,000 · EducationSOUTH SUBURBAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $400,000 · OtherSECOND GLANCE MINISTRIES: $350,000 · OtherChrists Body Inc: $312,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH SAN DIE: $300,000 · OtherMISSION HILLS CHURCH: $300,000 · OtherExcel Institute Inc: $295,670 · OtherWELLSPRING CHURCH: $280,000 · OtherSEEDS OF HOPE CHARITBL TR: $255,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE: $1,210,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFETHE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY FOUNDATON: $325,000 · Other+84 more: $3,552,062 · Other+84 moreCROSSPURPOSE: $4,535,000 · Community ImprovementCROSSPURPOSECHABAD OF CORONADO: $3,465,000 · ReligionCHABAD OF CORON…STRONG CROSS RANCH: $200,000 · ReligionUrban Skye: $160,000 · Religion+11 more: $514,500 · Religion+11 moreSAVE OUR YOUTH INC: $2,665,058 · Crime & LegalSAVE OUR YO…THE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC: $270,000 · Crime & LegalTHE MASTER'…+4 more: $100,500 · Crime & LegalMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $1,365,000 · Human ServicesMILE HIGH …GENERATEHOPE INC: $437,500 · Human ServicesGENERATEHO…HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $300,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE…DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Human ServicesDENVER POL…PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $195,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE…SEVEN SISTERS INTERNATIONAL: $161,000 · Human ServicesSEVEN SIST…MOMCO GLOBAL INC: $135,000 · Human Services+5 more: $146,000 · Human ServicesTHE SERVANT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,839,000 · PhilanthropyDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr: $343,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$6,535,295Other$7,579,732Community Improvement$4,535,000Religion$4,339,500Crime & Legal$3,035,558Human Services$2,939,500Philanthropy$2,192,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROSSPURPOSE: $4,535,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $3,267,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetVALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $2,741,795 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH INC: $2,665,058 over 9y, 46% of budgetTHE SERVANT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,839,000 over 8y, 78% of budgetMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $1,365,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,210,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC: $437,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetDowning Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr: $343,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetTHE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY FOUNDATON: $325,000 over 9y, 43% of budgetChrists Body Inc: $312,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $300,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetExcel Institute Inc: $295,670 over 1y, 60% of budgetTHE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC: $270,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $240,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH LITTLETON PROMISE: $206,000 over 9y, 16% of budgetDENVER POLICE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 14% of budget21C AMERICA: $200,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetSTRONG CROSS RANCH: $200,000 over 9y, 34% of budgetPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $195,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSEVEN SISTERS INTERNATIONAL: $161,000 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetUrban Skye: $160,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetThe International Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMOMCO GLOBAL INC: $135,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetColorado Christian University: $121,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC: $115,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISED LAND LIVING: $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHRIVE MINISTRY: $95,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetAsOne Ministries: $90,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetStep Denver: $90,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $87,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGame Day Memories: $80,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetRESTORATION OUTREACH PROGRAMS: $70,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetPRINCIPLES THAT MATTER: $67,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetGLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE: $62,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNEW LIFE MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBENSON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetLIFE CENTER ETHIOPIA: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHARBOR MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetBANDIMERE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $47,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetCITYUNITE: $45,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetMORDECAI NETWORK: $44,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetLAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE: $42,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES: $40,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN CONGRESS FOR TRUTH INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $39,000 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD OF CORONADO ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SERVANT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds GENERATEHOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Downing Street Foundation DBA Downing House Attn Jerri Carr ↗
  • Who funds THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY FOUNDATON ↗
  • Who funds Christs Body Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds Excel Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LITTLETON PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds DENVER POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 21C AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds STRONG CROSS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SEVEN SISTERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Urban Skye ↗
  • Who funds The International Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MOMCO GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROMISED LAND LIVING ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationLewan Family Foundati…The Anschutz Foundati…The New Horizons Foun…Pete Morgan Foundatio…Leadership Funding Fo…Amg Charitable Gift F…Adolph Coors Foundati…Mile High United Way …Leptas Foundation Tru…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO50.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Lewan Family Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Pete Morgan Foundation Trust · Leadership Funding Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Leptas Foundation Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tyl Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tyl 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 143 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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