· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $1,000 |
| HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION | $1,000 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $1,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $675 |
| TRANSITIONS - MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT | $500 |
| NORCAL RESIST | $500 |
| THE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE-FREE RELATIONSHIP | $500 |
| THE SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $500 |
| A LEG TO STAND ON | $500 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $450 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DIRECT RELIEF8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +94%- LGLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +250%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
135 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. 135 of the 195 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY FOODLINK ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- 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 AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Hillel at Davis and Sacramento ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEAVE INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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