· Private foundation
Lee and Carol Tager Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION | $3,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION | $1,000 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $1,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $675 |
| NORCAL RESIST | $500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $500 |
| TRANSITIONS - MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| THE SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $500 |
| CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT | $500 |
| THE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE-FREE RELATIONSHIP | $500 |
| A LEG TO STAND ON | $500 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $450 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 92 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
DIRECT RELIEF8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +94%- LGLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +423%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chicks in Crisis Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
135 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 135 of the 195 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY FOODLINK ↗
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- Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING INN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds Elk Grove Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hillel at Davis and Sacramento ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County ↗
- Who funds WEAVE INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · United Way California Capital Region · Sierra Health Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · Pfund Family Foundation · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Placer Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- First Candle Inc — 46% of income from government
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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