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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.

$16k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
78
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$450
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
62 to 79
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$3.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalCivil RightsFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving29$16k34%
FY202478$163k24%
FY202368$279k16%
FY202275$271k20%
FY202162$241k24%
FY202076$241k26%
FY201979$191k28%
FY201867$191k60%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$780kFood & Nutrition$203kHealth$188kHuman Services$155kInternational$126kReligion$99kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kHousing & Shelter$66kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Temple or Rishon Sunrise Jewish Congregation$85,0007n/a
California Emergency Foodlink$60,50080%
Direct Relief$55,20080%
Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc$48,00080%
United Way of Northern California$38,00040%
Sacramento Loaves & Fishes$33,30080%
CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter$31,00080%
Americares Foundation Inc$23,00070%
The Gathering Inn$22,40070%
Feeding America$21,00070%
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All grantees of Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Temple or Rishon Sunrise Jewish Congregation$85,0007n/a
California Emergency Foodlink$60,50080%
Direct Relief$55,20080%
Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc$48,00080%
United Way of Northern California$38,00040%
Sacramento Loaves & Fishes$33,30080%
CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter$31,00080%
Americares Foundation Inc$23,00070%
The Gathering Inn$22,40070%
Feeding America$21,00070%
International Relief Teams$20,00070%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$19,00070%
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc$18,00060%
Elk Grove Food Bank$16,37570%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$16,25070%
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services$16,00070%
American Kidney Fund Inc$13,00070%
Hillel at Davis and Sacramento$13,00071%
Puppies Behind Bars Inc$13,00070%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County$12,35070%
Gary Sinise Foundation$12,00060%
Weave Inc$12,00070%
Maui Food Bank Inc$11,50010%
The V Foundation$11,50050%
GO2 For Lung Cancer$11,25040%
Arthritis National Research Foundation$10,00050%
Feeding the Foothills$10,00050%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc$9,70060%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$9,50060%
Boys and Girls Club of Placer County$8,70070%
The Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA$8,00080%
Charity Navigator$7,10060%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$7,00030%
Hearing Health Foundation$7,00070%
Lungevity Foundation Inc$7,00040%
World Central Kitchen Inc$7,00020%
National Immigration Law Center$6,67560%
Community Against Sexual Harm$6,50060%
Violence Policy Center$6,25030%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$6,00050%
Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute$6,00020%
Trevor Project Inc$5,82560%
Wellspring Women's Center$5,70030%
10000 Degrees$5,00050%
Sacramento Children's Home$4,25030%
5cities Homeless Coalition Inc$4,00040%
Elks National Veterans Service Commission$4,00021%
Children of the Night$3,75040%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$3,50060%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$3,45070%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$3,35060%
The Center for Violence-Free Relationships$3,00040%
Sierra Forever Families$2,50030%
Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc$2,50040%
Chicks in Crisis Inc$2,50050%
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children$2,25020%
Compassion & Choices$2,20040%
Hias Inc$2,00010%
Ocean Conservancy$1,75050%
Alight$1,75040%
Prostate Cancer Foundation$1,70040%
Neads Inc$1,50020%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc$1,50030%
American Heart Association Inc$1,50020%
Challenged Athletes Inc$1,50020%
Give Kids the World Inc$1,42550%
Auburn Interfaith Food Closet Inc$1,40030%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$1,40030%
Compassion Planet$1,35050%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,20020%
Women's Empowerment$1,15040%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc$1,00010%
Sarcoma Foundation of America$1,00010%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies$1,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$1,00010%
CharityVision International$1,00010%
American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association$1,00010%
Leukemia Research Foundation$1,00010%
River City Food Bank$1,00010%
Cycles 4 Hope$8002n/a
Koinonia Foster Homes Inc$80020%
Kvie Inc$80040%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$77520%
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption$75030%
American Association of People With Disabilities$75030%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$70020%
NAMI California$65020%
Prader-Willi California Foundation$60030%
CalMatters$60030%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$50010%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$50010%
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse$50020%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$50020%
Transitionsmental Health Association$50010%
Friends of the Earth$50020%
American Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$50010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$50010%
Allies Against Slavery$50020%
California-Hawaii Elks Major Project Inc$50010%
International Eye Foundation$50010%
San Francisco Food Bank$50010%
Oceana Inc$50020%
The Jack and Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation$50010%
American Lung Association$50010%
Amazon Conservation Association$50020%
NorCal Resist$5001n/a
A Leg to Stand on Inc$5001n/a
Advocates Against Family Violence$50020%
Northern California Chapter Concerns of$5001n/a
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc$50010%
Equal Justice Initiative$40010%
Donut Dash$4001n/a
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$40010%
National Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc$37510%
Alameda County Community Food Bank$37510%
First Candle Inc$3001n/a
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$30010%
Stand Up Placer Inc$30010%
Equality California Institute$30010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$30010%
El Camino Homeless Organization$25010%
Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc$25010%
Jannus Inc$25010%
Nourish California$25010%
Willow International Everfree$2501n/a
Amazon Conservation Team$25010%
Baby2baby$2501n/a
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$25010%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$25010%
A Noise Within$25010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$20010%
Samaritan House$10010%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$10010%
San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center$7510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($899k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia Emergency Foodlink: $60,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDirect Relief: $55,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc: $48,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Northern California: $38,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSacramento Loaves & Fishes: $33,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $31,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gathering Inn: $22,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Relief Teams: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetElk Grove Food Bank: $16,375 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $16,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Food Bank & Family Services: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Kidney Fund Inc: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHillel at Davis and Sacramento: $13,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPuppies Behind Bars Inc: $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County: $12,350 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWeave Inc: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe V Foundation: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGO2 For Lung Cancer: $11,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis National Research Foundation: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding the Foothills: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc: $9,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Placer County: $8,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $7,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHearing Health Foundation: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLungevity Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $6,675 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Against Sexual Harm: $6,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetViolence Policy Center: $6,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAddario Lung Cancer Medical Institute: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $5,825 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWellspring Women's Center: $5,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budget10000 Degrees: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Children's Home: $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budget5cities Homeless Coalition Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetElks National Veterans Service Commission: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChildren of the Night: $3,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 125.

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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.

Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA43.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation

How much does Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation give?
Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $16,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 79 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Health (10%).
Who are Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple or Rishon Sunrise Jewish Congregation ($85k), California Emergency Foodlink ($61k), Direct Relief ($55k).
Does Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Teichert Foundation, California Foundation for Stronger Communities.
Where is Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation based?
Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 195 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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