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TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC

TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,248 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE ($1,124,748). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$732k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$155k
1/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Tusk Charitable Foundation Inc Formerly Tusk Montgomery Char Found Inc does

Mission

The purpose of the Foundation is make funds available exclusively to a broad range of section 501(c)(3) Public Charities whose needs correspond to the philanthropic goals of its founders and come within the charitable purposes outlined in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of the Foundation is make funds available exclusively to a broad range of section 501(c)(3) Public Charities whose needs correspond to the philanthropic goals of its founders and come within the charitable purposes outlined in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

    $565,880 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $565,880.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 100 ($150k) Expenses 100 ($146k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2022 Revenue 538 ($807k) Expenses 433 ($634k) Net assets 4898 ($177k)2023 Revenue 266 ($399k) Expenses 392 ($574k) Net assets 60 ($2k)2024 Revenue 488 ($732k) Expenses 396 ($579k) Net assets 4279 ($155k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (488)Expenses (396)Net assets (4279)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $177k to $2k (−99%).

$0
$4k
$177k
$2k
$155k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

’20
$4k
’21
$173k
’22
−$175k
’23
$152k
’24
3.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202220232024
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC.

83%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)70% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC?
TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,248 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE ($1,124,748). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,360,248 in grants to TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC?
ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $1,124,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC FORMERLY TUSK MONTGOMERY CHAR FOUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing