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Teshinsky Family Foundation Fred & Lucy Teshinsky Trustees at a glance

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Teshinsky Family Foundation Fred & Lucy Teshinsky Trustees

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.

$261k
Granted FY2017
25
Grants FY2017
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

84% of Teshinsky Family Foundation Fred & Lucy Teshinsky Trustees’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Teshinsky Family Foundation Fred & Lucy Teshinsky Trustees named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $261k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

19
’17
21
’19
0
’20
0
’21
2
’22
2
’23
2
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$13MHuman Services$1.2MCrime & Legal$130kHealth$105kInternational$90kEducation$85kArts & Culture$73kScience & Tech$48kOther$0
02FY2017 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k15 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$109M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Women's Clinic$30,000
NEW LOS ANGELES CHARTER SCHOOL$30,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$30,000
DIRECT RELIEF$25,000
Institute for Justice$20,000
UCSD Shiley Eye Institute$15,000
MOVIE PICTURE INSTITUTE$15,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC$15,000
National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund$10,000
Doctors Without Borders$10,000
Friends of the Observatory$5,000
First$5,000
The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice$5,000
Electronic Frontier Foundation$5,000
Carnegie-Mellon University$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%LOST ANGELS CHILDRENS PROJECT INC: $586k → 14%LOST ANGELS CHILDRENS PROJECT INC: $331k → 14%LOST ANGELS CHILDRENS PROJECT INC: $245k → 14%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

NH
MN
NY
IN
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 25 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2017, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
7

Total granted

$1.7M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+28%

Still filing today

72%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LA
    Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +111%
  • PL
    Pacific Legal Foundation
    2× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +136%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    2× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • NL
    NEW LOS ANGELES CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +218%
  • FA
    FRIENDS AND PATRONS OF THE LA PHIL
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +28%
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.

04Its 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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
4
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
9
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
10
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $12,595,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+1 more: $4,850 · PhilanthropyLost Angels Childrens Project Inc: $1,161,749 · Human ServicesLost Ange…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CLINIC & FAMILY COUNSELING: $60,000 · OtherElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS AND PATRONS OF THE LA PHIL: $20,000 · OtherNational Right to Work Legal Defense Fund: $20,000 · OtherFirst: $15,000 · OtherHebrew International Aid Society (HIAS): $15,000 · OtherMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $30,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE: $25,000 · OtherGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $15,000 · Other+9 more: $66,500 · OtherNEW LOS ANGELES CHARTER SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationEdChoice Inc: $15,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $5,000 · EducationDIRECT RELIEF: $55,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalPacific Legal Foundation: $60,000 · Crime & LegalINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $50,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$12,599,850Human Services$1,171,749Other$321,500Education$105,000International$75,000Crime & Legal$60,000Civil Rights$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $12,595,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLost Angels Childrens Project Inc: $1,161,749 over 3y, 15% of budgetWOMEN'S CLINIC & FAMILY COUNSELING: $60,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW LOS ANGELES CHARTER SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH GEN INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $4,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Sempra FoundationCalifornia Community …Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sempra FoundationCA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Teshinsky Family Foundation Fred & Lucy Teshinsky Trustees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Teshinsky Family Foundation Fred & Lucy Teshinsky Trustees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 34 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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