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Tevanian Family Foundation at a glance

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Tevanian Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$215k
Granted FY2017
11
Grants FY2017
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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.

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2017 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$50,000
STANFORD HEALTH CARE$50,000
COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM$40,000
READING PARTNERS$12,500
SHELBY'S SAFESPACE$10,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$10,000
STANFORD WOMEN'S CANCER PROGRAM$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$10,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM$10,000
RAYMOND WATERWAY PROTECTIVE ASSN$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%SHELBY'S SAFESPACE: $15k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $10k → 8%READING PARTNERS: $13k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%RAYMOND WATERWAY PROTECTIVE ASSN: $2k → 7%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%SHELBY'S SAFESPACE: $15k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $10k → 8%READING PARTNERS: $10k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $10k → 12%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%RAYMOND WATERWAY PROTECTIVE ASSN: $2k → 7%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%SHELBY'S SAFESPACE: $10k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $10k → 8%READING PARTNERS: $10k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $10k → 12%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%RAYMOND WATERWAY PROTECTIVE ASSN: $2k → 7%SHELBY'S SAFESPACE: $10k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $10k → 8%READING PARTNERS: $10k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $10k → 12%ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%RAYMOND WATERWAY PROTECTIVE ASSN: $1k → 7%STANFORD HEALTH CARE: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%STANFORD UNDER ONE UMBRELLA FUND: $25k → 8%STANFORD UNDER ONE UMBRELLA FUND: $25k → 8%STANFORD UNDER ONE UMBRELLA FUND: $25k → 8%STANFORD WOMEN'S CANCER PROGRAM: $20k → 8%STANFORD WOMEN'S CANCER PROGRAM: $20k → 8%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%STANFORD WOMEN'S CANCER PROGRAM: $10k → 8%COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $40k → 8%COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $40k → 8%COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $40k → 8%COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $40k → 8%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$610k · 11 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2017, 2 since wound down; 2 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

11
2

Total granted

$610k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+96%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • CH
    COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue +93%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +15%
  • RP
    READING PARTNERS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • SH
    STANFORD HEALTH CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +96%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +39%
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
Marshall B Ketchum University

To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carnegie Mellon University; the most unlike its peers is Raymond Waterways Protective Association. 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

13 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. 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,451,996 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $300,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHE…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF T…READING PARTNERS: $42,500 · EducationREADING PARTNERSUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHES…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…Carnegie Mellon University: $75,000 · OtherCarnegie M…STANFORD UNDER ONE UMBRELLA FUND: $75,000 · OtherSTANFORD U…STANFORD WOMEN'S CANCER PROGRAM: $50,000 · OtherSTANFORD W…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $40,000 · OtherRONALD MCD…COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $160,000 · Arts & CultureArmenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAFESPACE CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $50,000 · HealthMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $40,000 · AnimalsRAYMOND WATERWAYS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$1,451,996Education$457,500Other$240,000Arts & Culture$190,000Health$100,000Animals$40,000Environment$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,451,996 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of 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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND WATERWAYS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 4y, 1.6% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tevanian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tevanian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 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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