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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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER$5,750
CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL$2,500
YOUTH DOCUMENTARY ACADEMY$2,500
YOUTH EXCEL IN THE ARTS FOUNDATION$1,000
SHERLINE PIERRESP MULTISERVICES LLC$1,000
JENNIFER WEILEVERY CHILD OREGON PDX$1,000
WASHINGTON WEST FILM FESTIVAL$1,000
KYLIE GATES-BARRETTSHARING SMILES$1,000
VISIONNOW$1,000
SHIRLEY LYONS4 WOMENS VETERANS$1,000
MORGAN'S PLACE$1,000
AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE CAROLINAS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (FY23–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%COASTSIDE CHILDREN'S PROGRAM: $1k → 7%CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL: $3k → 10%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

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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 11% of Tdb Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Tdb Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.1% 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 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.

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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
6
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
7
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
8
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
10
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kidlinks; 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.
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 16 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
1/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: $5,750 · OtherREDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTERFRATERNITY WITHOUT BORDERS: $2,000 · OtherFRATERNITY WITHOUT BORDERSVISIONNOW: $1,000 · OtherVISIONNOWYOUTH EXCEL IN THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherYOUTH EXCEL IN THE ARTS FOUNDATIONJENNIFER WEILEVERY CHILD OREGON PDX: $1,000 · OtherJENNIFER WEILEVERY CHILD OREGON PDXSHIRLEY LYONS4 WOMENS VETERANS: $1,000 · OtherSHIRLEY LYONS4 WOMENS VETERANSSHERLINE PIERRESP MULTISERVICES LLC: $1,000 · OtherSHERLINE PIERRESP MULTISERVICES LLCKYLIE GATES-BARRETTSHARING SMILES: $1,000 · OtherKYLIE GATES-BARRETTSHARING SMILESIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherCRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL: $2,500 · Human ServicesCRESTED BUTTE F…Coastside Childrens Programs: $1,000 · Human ServicesCoastside Child…Youth Documentary Academy: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Docum…PRESIDIO BAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationMORGAN S PLACE INC: $1,000 · HealthWASHINGTON WEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE CAROLINAS: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$14,250Human Services$3,500Youth Development$2,500Education$2,000Health$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYouth Documentary Academy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPRESIDIO BAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCoastside Childrens Programs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORGAN S PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWASHINGTON WEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE CAROLINAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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

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 Tdb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tdb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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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