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Tevanian Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$215k
Granted FY2017
11
Grants FY2017
11
Organizations funded FY2017
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100% of Tevanian Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Tevanian Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $215k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’17
8
’18
8
’19
8
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

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

Median grant, FY2017
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$50,000
States reached, FY2017
4
Total assets, FY2017
$7.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.5MEducation$608kScience & Tech$160kHealth$150kEnvironment$47kHuman Services$40kArts & Culture$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tevanian Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetComputer History Museum: $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStanford Health Care: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Partners: $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Rochester: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $30,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetRaymond Waterways Protective Association: $7,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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About Tevanian Family Foundation

How much does Tevanian Family Foundation give?
Tevanian Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $214,500 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Tevanian Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Education (24%), Science & Tech (6%).
Who are Tevanian Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Computer History Museum ($160k), Carnegie Mellon University ($75k), Safespace Center Inc ($50k).
Does Tevanian Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Tevanian Family Foundation based?
Tevanian Family Foundation is based in CA.

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

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