· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $20,000 |
| FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE CATO INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| GREEN BERET FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH | $15,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $15,000 |
| BROOKFIELD ZOO | $15,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
| TEAM NELSON | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its 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 36% of Tepas 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 +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
JUDICIAL WATCH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $88k · revenue +16%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $88k · revenue +12%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +78%
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
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.
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How this is measured
19 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
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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
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.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tepas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tepas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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