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Tarbell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$732k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
139
Grants FY2024
122
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
70 to 144
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
15
Total assets, FY2024
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Tarbell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving123$711k17%
FY2023122$665k13%
FY2022144$885k24%
FY2021137$790k31%
FY2020108$705k31%
FY201990$545k24%
FY201870$531k29%
FY201786$519kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.0MArts & Culture$711kEnvironment$581kInternational$448kHuman Services$316kPublic Benefit$184kFood & Nutrition$147kReligion$146kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
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AL
TX
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 254 grantees
All grantees of Tarbell Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stoneleigh-Burnham School$803,21782%
Portland State University Foundation$274,65780%
Middle East Children's Alliance$245,00081%
Caspar Community$240,000845%
Willamette University$213,00070%
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center$169,00064%
East Bay German International School$161,00034%
University of Oregon Foundation$149,28060%
Deschutes Land Trust$122,00082%
The Alliance for Democracy Inc$110,000856%
Thornhill Parent Faculty Club$100,0003n/a
The Watershed Research & Training Center$73,00030%
Mendocino Land Trust$60,00081%
Think Wild$57,00033%
Nami Oregon$56,00081%
The Sea Ranch Volunteer Fire Department N Sonoma Coast Volunteer Fireassociation$54,000711%
Emeryville Citizens Assistance Program$53,0003n/a
Berkeley Playhouse Inc$51,00051%
Hollywood Heart$50,000717%
Truckee Donner Land Trust$46,00050%
American Research Institute in Turkey$46,00071%
Petrolia Volunteer Fire Department$45,000513%
Noyo Center For Marine Science$45,00083%
Mendocino County Public Broadcasting$42,00081%
A Jewish Voice for Peace$42,00040%
Kqed Inc$41,00080%
Global Exchange$40,00081%
Mendocino Performing Arts Company$40,00085%
Destiny Arts Center$40,00070%
The Christ School$38,00040%
Unrwa USA National Committee Inc$37,00070%
Mendocino Film Festival Inc$37,000815%
The University Foundation at Sacramento State$35,00030%
United Palestinian Appeal Inc$34,50060%
Mid Klamath Watershed Council$34,00031%
San Francisco Food Bank$33,00040%
Kcrw Foundation Inc$32,00070%
Mattole Restoration Council$32,00070%
Bay Area Ridge Trail Council$28,63761%
Friends of the Joaquin Moraga Adobe$27,000311%
Safe Passage Family Resource Center$26,00044%
Historical Sites Society of Arcata Incorporated$25,0001n/a
Oakland Girls Softball League$25,000414%
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund$23,00071%
To Be Fair Inc$22,0404n/a
The University of Puget Sound$21,00020%
Mendocino Rotary Foundation$20,500115%
The Body Positive$20,00032%
Otis College of Art and Design$20,00030%
Independent World Television Inc$19,50060%
San Francisco Mime Troupe Inc$19,00071%
Flockworks$16,50067%
Cloud Forest Institute$16,000315%
Tulen Foundation$16,0008n/a
Safe Haven Museum and Education Center Inc$15,50039%
American University$14,00050%
The Krenov Foundation$14,00049%
Mendocino Coast Clinics Inc$14,00050%
Bay Area Kinderstube$14,00070%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$13,50070%
Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy Center Inc$13,00042%
Friends of Sabeel-North America$12,50081%
Abilitypath$12,50040%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$12,00020%
If Americans Knew$12,00081%
Council for the National Interest F$12,00082%
Assoc for Invest in Pop Action Comm$12,00071%
The Freedom Archives$11,75081%
The Calflora Database$11,50051%
Sisters Habitat for Humanity$11,50060%
East Oakland Community Project$11,00030%
Friendly House Inc$11,00030%
Friends of the Fort Bragg Library$10,80873%
Three Sisters Historical Society$10,5006n/a
Community Center of Mendocino$10,50062%
Mattole Valley Resource Center$10,00017%
Soa Village Housing$10,0001n/a
The Noyo Food Forest$10,00017%
Oakland Catholic Worker$10,00031%
Underdog Animal Rescue$10,00022%
Caspar Creek Learning Community Inc$10,0001n/a
Friends of Gualala River$10,000215%
Participatory Politics Foundation$10,00063%
Play Marin$10,00022%
Muttville$10,00010%
East Bay Innovation Academy$10,00010%
The Milo Foundation$10,00020%
Climate Action Pathways for Schools$10,00014%
Berkeley Repertory Theatre$10,00020%
North Coast Opportunities Inc$10,00070%
The Mendocino Institute$10,0003n/a
California Academy of Sciences$10,00010%
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art$10,00011%
Sisters Kiwanis Community Service Foundation$9,16771%
Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center$9,00030%
Alliance for Smiles International Inc$9,0002n/a
Leap Arts in Education Fka Leap Imagination in Learning$9,00011%
SEEDS Community Resolution Cntr frmly East Bay Community Mediation$9,00050%
Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc$9,00050%
Democracy Unlimited$8,00083%
Opensecrets$8,00080%
US Solidarity Economy Network$8,00081%
Democracy Now Productions Inc$8,00080%
Institute for Policy Studies$8,00080%
Edge Funders Alliance$8,00080%
Noyo Radio Project$8,0008n/a
World's Children$8,00070%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$8,00050%
Japanese Garden Society of Oregon$8,00080%
Buffalo Bill Memorial Association$8,00010%
Cancer Resource Centers of Mendo Co$8,00031%
By the Bay Health$8,00050%
Cooperation Humboldt$8,00045%
Redwood Community Radio Inc$7,70051%
Leave It on the Road$7,5001n/a
Positive Futures Network Dba Yes Media$7,32670%
The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc$7,00070%
Shepherd's House Ministries$6,50050%
American Friends Service Committee$6,5005n/a
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$6,50050%
Los Compadres de Escuela Longfellow$6,50042%
German School of the East Bay Inc$6,00013%
Mendocino Coast Writers Conference$6,00061%
Cultural Fire Management Council$6,00030%
American University of Beirut$6,00030%
Spirit House for Attitidunal Healing$6,0006n/a
Rise Up$6,00061%
Wild Cat Education & Conservation Fund$6,00032%
Friends United Meeting Inc$5,5004n/a
Paw Fund$5,50031%
Westport Village Society$5,50033%
Bendfilm Inc$5,50050%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy$5,00050%
United States Fund for Unicef$5,00010%
California Indian Legal Services Inc$5,0003n/a
United States Association for UNHCR$5,00010%
Fibershed$5,00010%
North American Congress on Latin America$5,00051%
New Economy Coalition Inc$5,00010%
The Pacifica Foundation$5,00010%
Blankner Elementary School Foundation Inc$5,00033%
Museum at Warm Springs$5,00040%
Americares Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Sbcs Corporation$5,00010%
East Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay$5,00011%
Oakland School for the Arts$5,00010%
Hearts Fur Paws$5,0001n/a
Empowerment Works Inc$5,00010%
Fisher House Southern California Inc$5,00011%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$4,50040%
Community Initiatives$4,50030%
Independent Arts & Media$4,00020%
Pacific Crest Trail Association$4,00020%
Native American Rights Fund Inc$4,00020%
Poor People's Radio Inc$4,00041%
Aurora Colony Historical Society$4,00021%
Sisters Cold Weather Shelter$4,00032%
Sisters Science Club$4,0003n/a
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute$4,00040%
Eritrean Community Center of Santa Clara$3,500388%
Save the Waves Coalition$3,00020%
Sisters Schools Foundation Inc$3,00030%
The Marine Mammal Center$3,00020%
First Look Institute Inc$3,00020%
National Peace Corps Association$3,00030%
Peace Literacy Institute$3,0003n/a
The Friends of the Oakland Public Library$3,00012%
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc$3,00020%
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc$3,00020%
International Humanitarian Care$3,0001n/a
Out Central Oregon$2,80051%
Smart Reading$2,50010%
Mendocino Coast Childrens Fund$2,50020%
Mercy Corps$2,50030%
Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center$2,50030%
Golden State Opportunity$2,50010%
Indigenous Environmental Network$2,00010%
St Charles Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Sisters Organization for Activities and Recreation$2,00030%
Girls on the Run of San Diego$2,00010%
National Forest Foundation$2,00010%
Oakland Elizabeth House$2,00010%
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute Inc$2,0001n/a
San Diego Rescue Mission Foundation$2,00013%
Revived Soldiers Ukraine$2,00020%
Silent Echo Theater Company LLC$2,0003n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay$2,00010%
Mendocino Coast Jewish Community$2,0001n/a
Earthmind$2,0002n/a
Friends of Oakland Animal Services$2,00010%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc$2,00010%
Bay Area Discovery Museum$2,00010%
Deschutes County Historical Society$2,00030%
Elk Volunteer Fire Department$1,7002n/a
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc$1,66710%
La Luz Center$1,50010%
Community of Writers$1,50010%
Imagine Bus Project$1,50010%
Citizens4community$1,50030%
CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse$1,50010%
Samaritan House$1,50010%
Education For Just Peace in Middle East$1,50020%
Camp Polk Pioneer Cemetery Preservation Committee$1,5002n/a
Public Accountability Initiative Inc$1,32610%
The American Himalayan Foundation$1,00010%
Institute for Sustainable Forestry$1,0001n/a
Propwatch Inc$1,0001n/a
The Sunlight Foundation$1,00010%
Erisat-Eritrean Satellite Television$1,00011%
A Gift for Teaching Inc$1,00010%
Wikimedia Endowment$1,00010%
Friends General Conference$1,0001n/a
The George Washington University$1,00010%
Mothers Against Media Addiction$1,00010%
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Inc$1,00010%
School of Adaptive Agriculture$1,00012%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$1,00010%
Oregon Historical Society$1,00010%
Regional Resilience Network$1,0001n/a
Global Disaster Relief Team Inc$1,00011%
Partners in Care$1,00010%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$1,00010%
Crook County Historical Society$1,00021%
American Association for State and Local History$1,00010%
Global Student Embassy$1,00010%
Morrow Area Historical Society$1,0001n/a
Institute for Nonprofit News$1,00010%
The Intercept Media Inc$1,00010%
Thistle Farms Inc$1,00010%
Greenwood Community Center Inc$1,00027%
Library Legacy Foundation of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library$1,00010%
Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi$1,00010%
Farm to Trunk Inc$1,00015%
Art Explorers Inc$1,00020%
Rural Coalition$1,0001n/a
East Bay Childrens Book Project$1,0001n/a
Honor the Earth$1,00010%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$1,00010%
Housing and Neighborhood Developmen Services of Central Fl$1,00010%
The Animation Show of Shows Inc$75021%
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc$6671n/a
Environmental Protection Information Center Inc$60010%
Food for the Poor Inc$50010%
San Francisco State University Foundation$50010%
Upper Deschutes Watershed Council$50010%
Arts Council of Mendocino County$50010%
Asifa-Hollywood$50010%
Klcc Public Radio Foundation$50010%
Pacific Textile Arts$50011%
Water Conservation Garden Authority$50010%
Save the Redwoods League$50010%
Saving Grace$30010%
Transgender Law Center$25010%
Breakthrough T1d$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($232k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Tarbell Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStoneleigh-Burnham School: $803,217 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetPortland State University Foundation: $274,657 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMiddle East Children's Alliance: $245,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCaspar Community: $240,000 over 8y, 45% of budgetWillamette University: $213,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetShawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center: $169,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetEast Bay German International School: $161,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetUniversity of Oregon Foundation: $149,280 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $122,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetThe Alliance for Democracy Inc: $110,000 over 8y, 56% of budgetThe Watershed Research & Training Center: $73,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMendocino Land Trust: $60,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThink Wild: $57,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNami Oregon: $56,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetThe Sea Ranch Volunteer Fire Department N Sonoma Coast Volunteer Fireassociation: $54,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetBerkeley Playhouse Inc: $51,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHollywood Heart: $50,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetTruckee Donner Land Trust: $46,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Research Institute in Turkey: $46,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPetrolia Volunteer Fire Department: $45,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetNoyo Center For Marine Science: $45,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetMendocino County Public Broadcasting: $42,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetA Jewish Voice for Peace: $42,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKqed Inc: $41,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Exchange: $40,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMendocino Performing Arts Company: $40,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetDestiny Arts Center: $40,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Christ School: $38,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUnrwa USA National Committee Inc: $37,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMendocino Film Festival Inc: $37,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetThe University Foundation at Sacramento State: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Palestinian Appeal Inc: $34,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMid Klamath Watershed Council: $34,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKcrw Foundation Inc: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMattole Restoration Council: $32,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBay Area Ridge Trail Council: $28,637 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of the Joaquin Moraga Adobe: $27,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSafe Passage Family Resource Center: $26,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetOakland Girls Softball League: $25,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetCommunity Environmental Legal Defense Fund: $23,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetThe University of Puget Sound: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMendocino Rotary Foundation: $20,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe Body Positive: $20,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOtis College of Art and Design: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent World Television Inc: $19,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Mime Troupe Inc: $19,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetFlockworks: $16,500 over 6y, 7.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Community Foundation of Mendocino CountyCA61.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · East Bay Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Humboldt Area Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust

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.

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How do I get to Tarbell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tarbell 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.

About Tarbell Family Foundation

How much does Tarbell Family Foundation give?
Tarbell Family Foundation reported 139 grants totaling $731,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 144 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Tarbell Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Arts & Culture (13%), Environment (11%).
Who are Tarbell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Stoneleigh-Burnham School ($803k), Portland State University Foundation ($275k), Middle East Children's Alliance ($245k).
Does Tarbell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tarbell 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 Tarbell Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Mendocino County, East Bay Community Foundation, The Roundhouse Foundation.
Where is Tarbell Family Foundation based?
Tarbell Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 280 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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