Funder Standing / Tosa Foundation

Tosa Foundation

CA · EIN 943165171 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees occasionally

29 of 116 organizations Tosa Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 24.3%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
24.3%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$5,000
Range $10 – $29,346,141
Repeat-dollar share
88.1%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
No
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - TAUPO$29,346,141
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$26,000,000
FUND FOR WISCONSIN SCHOLARS$25,000,000
MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONnew$25,000,000
ALVERNO COLLEGE$10,000,000
AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,403,213
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$1,269,784
COVENANT HOUSE$976,085
BOOK TRUST$813,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$600,000
CITY YEAR OF MILWAUKEE$579,536
MALAWI CHILDREN'S VILLAGE$500,000
CITY YEAR$300,000
SUICIDE AWARENESS VOICES OF EDUCATIONnew$250,000
TREE HOUSE CHILD AND FAMILY CENTERnew$200,000
SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER$101,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA$100,000
GRANITE UNITED WAY$100,000
PENINSULA BRIDGE$100,000
PLYMOUTH ROTARY FOUNDATION$100,000
CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTUREnew$100,000
WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASnew$100,000
MAUI FOOD BANKnew$70,000
SPEARE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$50,000

Showing the 25 largest of 116 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what Tosa Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.