· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k117 grants · $251k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $431k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST CHILDRENS ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| WATERSHED RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER | $37,000 |
| STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| SHAWL-ANDERSON MODERN DANCE CENTER | $29,000 |
| EAST BAY GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $27,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CASPAR COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| HISTORICAL SITES SOCIETY OF ARCATA INCORPORATED | $25,000 |
| PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALI | $20,000 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| THINK WILD | $17,000 |
| DESCHUTES BASIN LAND TRUST | $17,000 |
| UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE | $15,000 |
| OAKLAND GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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 Tarbell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
166 repeat relationships: 102 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSTONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $803k · revenue +18%
- MEMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +559%
- CCCaspar Community8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +37% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- EOEAST OAKLAND SCHOOL OF THE ARTSone grant, 2017 · $37k
- MRMendocino Rotary Foundationone grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -78%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTOone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.
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,…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
How this is measured
234 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. 234 of the 280 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Caspar Community ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center ↗
- Who funds East Bay German International School ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds Thornhill Parent Faculty Club ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mendocino Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Think Wild ↗
- Who funds NAMI OREGON ↗
- Who funds THE SEA RANCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT N SONOMA COAST VOLUNTEER FIREASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Playhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD HEART ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY ↗
- Who funds PETROLIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Noyo Center For Marine Science ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COUNTY PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE ↗
- Who funds UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds MID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tarbell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tarbell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
- Nami Oregon: 10% of income from government
- Think Wild: 7% of income from government
- Out Central Oregon: 3% of income from government
- Bendfilm Inc: 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc: 3% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
- Willamette University: 1% of income from government
- Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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