How much does Tabell Family Foundation give?

Tabell Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $26,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Tabell Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (7%).

Who are Tabell Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Williams College ($52k), Patten Free Library ($49k), Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ($25k).

Does Tabell Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tabell 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 Tabell Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust, Messier-Costain Foundation.

Where is Tabell Family Foundation based?

Tabell Family Foundation is based in ME.

Tabell Family Foundation

Tabell Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Tabell 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.

$27k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of Tabell Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Tabell Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $27k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$362kEducation$233kArts & Culture$66kHousing & Shelter$62kHealth$58kInternational$56kFood & Nutrition$30kEnvironment$27kOther$0

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Sterling College	$5,000
Doctors Without Borders	$3,000
Planned Parenthood	$2,500
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun	$2,500
The Climate Reality Project	$2,500
OUTWORDS	$2,000
World Central Kitchen	$2,000
Stuart Country Day School	$1,500
Patten Free Library	$1,500
7 Lakes Alliance	$1,500
Colgate University	$1,000
Society of Saint Vincent DePaul	$1,000
Speak About It	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$454k · 45 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$454k

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+14%

Still filing today

73%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

Williams College
3× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +36%
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PATTEN FREE LIBRARY
9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +36%
CU
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +80%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $5k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -25%
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No One Left Behindgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +36%

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.

President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education

The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

President and Fellows of Middlebury College

Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation 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

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 80 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/61

Grantees still filing

42/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$356,696Other$289,708Education$180,850International$66,518Arts & Culture$27,750Environment$26,700Housing & Shelter$24,500

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.

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME21.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust · Messier-Costain Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment 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 Tabell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tabell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home