· Private foundation
Tepas 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $61,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $30,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC | $20,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $20,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $15,000 |
| THE CATO INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GREEN BERET FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BROOKFIELD ZOO | $15,000 |
| TEAM NELSON | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 36% of Tepas 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FAFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +7%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $88k · revenue +16%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $88k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- BHBARRINGTON HS HORSESHOE CLUBone grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +19%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +39%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAone grant, 2024 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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19 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON HS HORSESHOE CLUB ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Team Nelson Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Charlotte and Gwenyth Gray Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tepas 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.
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.