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Tyler 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.

$397k
Granted FY2025still arriving
93
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$650kEducation$312kYouth Development$218kHuman Services$181kPublic Safety & Disaster$166kArts & Culture$161kReligion$145kHousing & Shelter$129kOther$0
02FY2025 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k82 grants · $234k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $163k
$2,500
Median grant
25
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Both Ends Believing$25,000
Junior Achievement Of Maine$22,500
American Red Cross$20,000
Mitchell Institute$15,000
San Antonio Food Bank$15,000
Barbara Bush Children's Hospital$12,500
Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf Of Dallas$12,500
Boys & Girls Clubs Of Southern Maine$10,000
911 Day$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund$10,000
The Maine Women's Conference$8,000
Sean M Walsh K-9 Memorial Foundation$8,000
Grant Halliburton Foundation$7,500
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$7,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Arizona Friends Of Foster Children Foundation: $3k → 11%Avivo: $5k → 11%City House: $13k → 5%WillPower Community Foundation: $5k → 10%Sewa International: $10k → 16%Home Of Hope: $3k → 21%Sheep Dog Impact Assistance: $3k → 8%Jason Taylor Foundation: $5k → 13%City House: $11k → 5%Jason Taylor Foundation: $5k → 13%Sweetser: $10k → 9%CITY HOUSE: $5k → 5%SWEETSER: $5k → 9%Autism Society Of Maine: $14k → 12%City House: $3k → 5%SWEETSER: $5k → 9%Autism Society of Maine: $5k → 12%The Little Bit Foundation: $3k → 11%SWEETSER: $5k → 9%Autism Society of Maine: $5k → 12%SWEETSER: $5k → 9%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf Of Dallas: $13k → 14%SWEETSER: $5k → 9%Autism Society of Maine: $3k → 12%SWEETSER: $3k → 9%Sweetser: $3k → 9%BOTH ENDS BELIEVING: $25k → 5%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf Of Dallas: $3k → 14%American Red Cross: $20k → 14%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%OnRamp: $5k → 14%Vogel Alcove: $5k → 14%Vogel Alcove: $5k → 14%Vogel Alcove: $5k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $3k → 14%Vogel Alcove: $3k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $3k → 14%SoupMobile: $3k → 14%Vogel Alcove: $3k → 14%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $3k → 7%Taylor James Steeves Foundation: $16k → 7%Riding To The Top: $8k → 7%Taylor James Steeves Foundation: $3k → 7%RIDING TO THE TOP: $3k → 7%Preble Street: $8k → 7%Both Ends Believing: $25k → 14%Preble Street: $3k → 7%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

ME
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 114 repeat orgs$663k to everyone else

114 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
185

Total granted

$2.3M
$595k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+24%

Still filing today

61%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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 ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +140%
  • EM
    Educate Maine
    8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +229%
  • SM
    SEAN M WALSH K-9 MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +21% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +35%
  • HF
    Haven for Hope of Bexar County
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -6%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
2
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
4
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
6
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
7
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education
10
Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

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11
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
12
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Empowered Narratives. 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

205 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. 205 of the 345 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
195/205
Grantees still filing
124/205
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS - DALLAS AREA CHAPTER: $101,080 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - DALLAS AREA CHAPTERBoth Ends Believing: $100,000 · OtherBoth Ends BelievingAT&T Performing Arts Center: $80,000 · OtherBarbara Bush Children's Hospital: $63,250 · OtherSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $81,500 · Other+129 more: $1,257,233 · Other+129 moreBOTH ENDS BELIEVING INC: $50,200 · Human ServicesBOTH ENDS BE…Sweetser: $40,000 · Human ServicesSweetserVOGEL ALCOVE: $31,500 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVECITY HOUSE INC: $31,325 · Human ServicesCITY HOUSE I…AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAINE d/b/a ASM: $28,250 · Human ServicesAUTISM SOCIE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $24,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…RIDING TO THE TOP: $24,000 · Human ServicesRIDING TO TH…Taylor James Steeves Foundation: $18,500 · Human ServicesTaylor James…Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $15,250 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET: $12,550 · Human Services+13 more: $59,550 · Human Services+13 moreUniversity of Maine Foundation: $108,300 · EducationUniversity o…Educate Maine: $95,000 · EducationEducate Main…GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · EducationGRANT HALLIB…Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $22,500 · EducationSenator Geor…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $19,183 · EducationDONORSCHOOSE…The Maine Womens Conference Inc: $11,000 · Education+7 more: $40,815 · Education+7 moreMARCH OF DIMES INC: $38,750 · HealthMARCH OF …American Heart Association Inc: $37,000 · HealthAmerican …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $36,250 · HealthST JUDE C…Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care: $26,600 · HealthDempsey C…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthCYSTIC FI…Maine Cancer Foundation: $23,500 · HealthMaine Can…MaineHealth: $20,500 · HealthMaineHeal…American Diabetes Association: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS-IOWA INC: $9,250 · HealthKYLECARES INC: $9,200 · Health+4 more: $21,750 · Health+4 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $66,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADERS 2 LEADERS: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentMEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION: $16,250 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC: $10,400 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Place: $8,479 · Youth DevelopmentZEBRA YOUTH INC: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC: $105,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 · InternationalVIBHA INC AKA HELP THEM GROW: $6,250 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $5,000 · InternationalSEAN M WALSH K-9 MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $83,250 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: $17,500 · Crime & LegalNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $5,000 · Crime & LegalORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $2,750 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,683,063Human Services$335,625Education$324,298Health$257,800Youth Development$134,129International$126,250Crime & Legal$113,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $108,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC: $105,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetEducate Maine: $95,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSEAN M WALSH K-9 MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $83,250 over 8y, 25% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $81,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $66,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOTH ENDS BELIEVING INC: $50,200 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSweetser: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $38,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $37,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $36,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $31,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HOUSE INC: $31,325 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND: $29,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF MAINE d/b/a ASM: $28,250 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America: $26,880 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care: $26,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DALLAS EC: $25,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $24,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDING TO THE TOP: $24,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetMaine Cancer Foundation: $23,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaineHealth: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $19,183 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS: $17,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION: $16,250 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $15,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budget911 DAY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST BUDDIES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetPEOPLE FOR URBAN PROGRESS INC: $14,500 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $12,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCode Enforcement Officer Safety Foundation: $12,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $11,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMorningstar International: $11,500 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine: $11,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Maine Womens Conference Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetSewa International Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 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 University of Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds Educate Maine ↗
  • Who funds SEAN M WALSH K-9 MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
  • Who funds BOTH ENDS BELIEVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Sweetser ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
  • Who funds CITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAINE d/b/a ASM ↗
  • Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care ↗
  • Who funds THE DALLAS EC ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds RIDING TO THE TOP ↗
  • Who funds Maine Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Saco & Biddeford Savi…Sam L Cohen FoundationAtlantic Federal Cred…Texas Instruments Fou…Maine Community Found…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…Vincent B and Barbara…Bangor Savings Bank F…Davis Family Foundati…Elmina B Sewall Found…Virginia Hodgkins Som…
Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable FoundationME42.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Atlantic Federal Credit Union Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tyler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tyler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • Operation New Hope Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
42report 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
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 Tyler Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tyler 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 345 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home