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Tahoe 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$58kReligion$33kArts & Culture$999Recreation & Sports$66Philanthropy$51International$50
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$531k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Duke University$8,000
Individual grant recipient$2,147
The Church of Jesus Christ$2,000
MIT Alumni Association$814
Beechwood School$306
Community Foundation of the North S$21
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%MIT Alumni Association: $4k → 8%The Church of Jesus Christ: $2k → 10%Beechwood School: $306 → 7%Castilleja School: $35 → 8%Spirit Rock: $2k → 8%Yu Ming Charter School: $1k → 10%Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: $209 → 10%Community Foundation of the North S: $21 → 14%Tenement Museum: $47 → 17%Wikimedia: $40 → 20%Network for Good: $30 → 14%Hillsdale College: $190 → 14%Trinity College: $26 → 11%Duke University: $8k → 11%MIT Alumni Association: $814 → 8%The Church of Jesus Christ: $2k → 10%Filoli: $232 → 7%Khan Lab School: $2k → 8%Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: $20 → 10%Wikimedia: $10 → 20%Hillsdale College: $50 → 14%Duke University: $8k → 11%MIT Alumni Association: $414 → 8%The Church of Jesus Christ: $1k → 10%Khan Lab School: $1k → 8%Firstwave Events: $66 → 10%Duke University: $8k → 11%Khan Lab School: $700 → 8%Wikimedia: $30 → 10%Duke University: $8k → 11%Khan Lab School: $500 → 8%Duke University: $7k → 11%Khan Lab School: $200 → 8%Duke University: $6k → 11%LDS Church: $8k → 8%LDS Church: $6k → 8%LDS Church: $5k → 8%LDS Church: $3k → 8%LDS Church: $3k → 8%LDS Church: $2k → 8%El Camino Youth Symphony: $198 → 8%El Camino Youth Symphony: $170 → 8%River of Life Christian Church: $500 → 8%Palo Alto School District: $2k → 8%Palo Alto School District: $1k → 8%Palo Alto PA: $500 → 8%JLS Correction Program: $150 → 8%JLS Middle School: $50 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
NC
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$86k · 9 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$86k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+66%

Still filing today

33%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +51%
  • KL
    KHAN LAB SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2023 · $4k · revenue +152%
  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $229 · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • YM
    YU MING CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +68%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • RO
    RIVER OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
Mark Day School

Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.

6
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

7
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
8
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Corporation of the Washington Latin School

To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.

Education
12
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Khan Lab School and the most unlike its peers is Jls Middle School Pta. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY — $43,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYKHAN LAB SCHOOL — $4,200 · EducationKHAN LAB SCHOOL+5 more — $1,357 · EducationLDS Church — $25,700 · OtherLDS ChurchMIT Alumni Association — $5,278 · OtherMIT Alumni AssociationCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST — $4,550 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRISTPalo Alto School District — $2,500 · OtherPalo Alto School DistrictIndividual grant recipient — $2,147 · Other+12 more — $2,354 · Other+12 moreCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $229 · Arts & CultureLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM — $47 · Arts & CultureNETWORK FOR GOOD — $30 · Public Safety & DisasterCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE — $21 · Philanthropy
Education$49,057Other$42,529Arts & Culture$276Public Safety & Disaster$30Philanthropy$21

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $43,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN LAB SCHOOL — $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYU MING CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $229 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $56 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJLS Middle School PTA — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM — $47 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $26 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE — $21 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds KHAN LAB SCHOOL
  • Who funds YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS
  • Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds JLS Middle School PTA
  • Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM
  • Who funds CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tahoe Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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