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Taffae Family Foundation at a glance

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Taffae 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$498kEducation$336kHuman Services$53kHealth$10kArts & Culture$6kReligion$3kYouth Development$2kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION$50,000
MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE JERUSALEM$5,000
CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION$3,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$1,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%DREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%DREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%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

NY
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Taffae Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 55%.

Taffae Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$843k · 6 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$843k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-16%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $498k · revenue +36%
  • MG
    MONTESSORI GLOBAL GROWTH FUND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $33k · revenue +13%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CY
    CONGREGATION YESHIVA OHR HAMEIR
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • SF
    STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +57%
  • UF
    UP2 FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -16%
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
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
2
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
12
Universidad Del Sagrado Corazon Inc

The universidad del sagrado corazon (sagrado) is an independent, nonprofit, catholic university, committed to the education of the whole person through strong foundation in the liberal arts. sagrado is part of puerto ricos oldest private,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is UP2 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.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $498,284 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INCITHACA COLLEGE: $295,666 · EducationITHACA COLLEGEMONTESSORI GLOBAL GROWTH FUND: $32,500 · EducationMONTESSORI GLOBAL GROWTH FUND+2 more: $7,000 · EducationMONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesDREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $8,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF TOLERANCE JERUSALEM: $5,000 · OtherCONGREGATION YESHIVA OHR HAMEIR: $2,500 · OtherSPENCER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherANGELS BARK DOG RESCUE: $1,000 · OtherHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $1,000 · Other+4 more: $1,500 · OtherSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $2,390 · Youth DevelopmentBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE BICOL CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthUP2 FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$498,284Education$335,166Human Services$52,500Other$20,000Youth Development$2,390Health$1,500Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $498,284 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $295,666 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI GLOBAL GROWTH FUND: $32,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRIER FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $2,390 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUP2 FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetANGELS BARK DOG RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BICOL CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Taffae Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Taffae Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 21 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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