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Tdb 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.

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$10k
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 FY20232025.

Arts & Culture$17kEducation$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kHealth$9kPhilanthropy$8kInternational$8kYouth Development$7kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALTADENA ROTARY CLUB$10,000
PEAK EDUCATION$10,000
HEARTLAND FILM INC$7,500
HEAL TRAUMAS INTERNATIONAL$7,500
BRAVEMAKER$5,000
THE CARTER CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
PIKES PEAK BREAKING AWAY CWA INC$1,955
YOUTH DOCUMENTARY ACADEMY$1,423
PROJECT CAMP$1,050
IT'S BIGGER THAN US$1,040
ALL SAINTS CHURCH$1,000
NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS CASA INC$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
THE KINDNESS PROJECT$1,000
02The need
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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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Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE KINDNESS PROJECT: $1k → 11%COASTSIDE CHILDREN'S PROGRAM: $1k → 7%SPONSOR A SPACE: $1k → 9%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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Tdb Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Tdb Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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.

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Cinequest Inc

Cinequest fuses innovation with the arts to empower creators, youth, and audiences through film, creativity, and technologyconnecting people, stories, and ideas to inspire and transform lives.

Unclassified
2
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
3
Transitional Youth Mobilizing for Change

The mission of TYM4Change is to empower youth to achieve their full potential and become agents of change in their communities through learning, research, and action.

Youth Development
4
Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions

Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions creates opportunities, inspires children and youth, and builds community in the Salinas Valley through visual and multicultural arts education, experiences, and mentorship, where young people are respected,…

Arts & Culture
5
Center for Humane Technology

Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the most consequential technologies actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.

Science & Tech
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Kulture Klub Collaborative

The mission of Kulture Klub Collaborative is to provide a safe consistent space for youth experiencing homelessness to freely enjoy access to the arts. At KKC we believe that everyone is an artist. We expose, educate, and empower youth…

Arts & Culture
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Heyday

Our core mission is to deepen peoples awareness of the cultural, natural, literary, and historic resources of California, especially through publications but also through events and other media.

Arts & Culture
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Youth in Arts

Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…

Arts & Culture
9
Parents-to-Parents
Health
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Womens Voices Now Inc

Use film to drive postive social change that advances girls and women's rights globally.

International
11
Huma House Inc

Huma House located in Los Angeles California was established with the knowledge that art exhibitions can serve as a potent activist tool. Their core mission revolves around the belief that art can be a transformative force providing…

Arts & Culture
12
Impact Bay Area

IMPACT Bay Area offers violence-prevention programs for people of the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area to embody their own power, set effective boundaries, defend their physical and emotional safety, and heal. We build safe spaces for people…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kidlinks and the most unlike its peers is Hisako Film Lab. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation Equity LeadershipAnimal Rescue and AdoptionChristian Youth CampsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Public Library SupportAt-Risk Youth MentoringClassical Music EnsemblesCommunity Arts OrganizationsEarly Childhood Education C…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%34%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%31%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 34% of your grantees by number, and just 31% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,532

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 49 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)
25/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALTADENA ROTARY CLUB — $10,000 · OtherALTADENA ROTARY CLUBIndividual grant recipient — $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRATERNITY WITHOUT BORDERS — $2,000 · OtherPIKES PEAK BREAKING AWAY CWA INC — $1,955 · Other+30 more — $30,090 · Other+30 moreHEARTLAND FILM INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureHEARTLAND FILM IN…BRAVEMAKER — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBRAVEMAKERCASA CIRCULO CULTURAL — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCASA CIRCULO CULT…HISAKO FILM LAB — $1,000 · Arts & CultureHISAKO FILM LABPeak Education — $10,000 · EducationPeak EducationPRESIDIO BAY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · EducationPRESIDIO BAY FO…PENINSULA BOOK COLLABORATIVE — $1,000 · EducationPENINSULA BOOK …Heal Traumas International Inc — $7,500 · HealthHeal Trau…THE CARTER CENTER INC — $5,000 · InternationalYouth Documentary Academy — $1,423 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MEN OF DISTINCTION INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTruly Valued Inc — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCoastside Childrens Programs — $1,000 · Human ServicesSponsor A Space — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE KINDNESS PROJECT — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$46,545Arts & Culture$14,500Education$13,000Health$7,500International$5,000Youth Development$3,423Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPeak Education — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRAVEMAKER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPRESIDIO BAY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYouth Documentary Academy — $1,423 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCoastside Childrens Programs — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTruly Valued Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNo Boundaries International Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOVEJOY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORDS TO POWER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHISAKO FILM LAB — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

California Community FoundationCA10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Tdb 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tdb Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tdb 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.

    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 49 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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