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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 FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$450
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 10%NEADS WORLD CLASS SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 11%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION: $1k → 12%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION: $1k → 12%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $1k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $2k → 7%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $5k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $5k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $5k → 6%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $4k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $3k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $3k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $3k → 6%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $3k → 6%THE GATHERING INN: $5k → 6%THE GATHERING INN: $3k → 6%GATHERING INN: $3k → 6%THE GATHERING INN: $3k → 6%GATHERING INN: $3k → 6%GATHERING INN: $3k → 6%GATHERING INN: $2k → 6%WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 12%WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 12%WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $6k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $4k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $4k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $4k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $4k → 12%LOAVES & FISHES-SACRAMENTO: $3k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $3k → 12%THE SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 12%ELK GROVE FOOD BANK: $3k → 12%ELK GROVE FOOD BANK: $3k → 12%ELK GROVE FOOD BANK: $3k → 12%ELK GROVE FOOD BANK: $3k → 12%ELK GROVE FOOD BANK: $2k → 12%COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 111 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111
71

Total granted

$1.5M
$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +94%
  • LG
    LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +250%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
4
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
5
American Cancer Society Inc

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.

Health
6
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
10
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/135
Grantees still filing
96/135
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF SACRAMENTO: $285,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SACRAMENTOIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE OR RISHON SUNRISE JEWISH CONGREGATION: $85,000 · OtherTEMPLE OR RISHON SUNRISE JEWISH CONGREGATIONIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCALIFORNIA EMERGENCY FOODLINK: $60,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS-SACRAMENTO: $47,000 · Other+102 more: $375,600 · Other+102 moreSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $33,300 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO…CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $31,000 · Human ServicesCASA of Pl…THE GATHERING INN: $22,400 · Human ServicesTHE GATHER…Elk Grove Food Bank: $16,375 · Human ServicesElk Grove …PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BE…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesCANINE COM…Charity Navigator: $7,100 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM: $6,500 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $5,700 · Human Services+15 more: $26,100 · Human Services+15 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $55,200 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $22,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 · International+5 more: $5,250 · InternationalLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $48,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $38,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $8,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $7,600 · PhilanthropyALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $19,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $18,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $11,500 · HealthGO2 For Lung Cancer: $11,250 · HealthARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthAddario Lung Cancer Medical Institute: $6,000 · Health+15 more: $13,925 · HealthFeeding America: $21,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $11,500 · Food & NutritionFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $3,500 · Food & NutritionCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County: $12,350 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $6,675 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,825 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $2,200 · Civil Rights+6 more: $3,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,198,100Human Services$170,975International$132,450Philanthropy$128,600Health$103,675Food & Nutrition$46,000Civil Rights$30,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% 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 budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 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 JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budget
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.

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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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