Delaware · Private foundation
The Tapeats Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $898k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 95
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 86
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Tapeats Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 90 | $878k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $771k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $828k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $755k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $735k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $805k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $740,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Houston Zoo Inc | $320,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ranch Hands Rescue | $195,500 | 6 | 3% |
| MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project | $170,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Prison Entrepreneurship Program Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Teach for America Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yellowstone Forever | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Peregrine Fund Inc | $105,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Positive Coaching Alliance | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Breakthrough Houston | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 117 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tapeats Fund supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The Elkins Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Tapeats Fund?
Find your warmest path to The Tapeats Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The Tapeats Fund
- How much does The Tapeats Fund give?
- The Tapeats Fund reported 95 grants totaling $897,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 86 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Tapeats Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (32%), Education (22%), Environment (9%).
- Who are The Tapeats Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Wildlife Conservation Network Inc ($740k), Houston Zoo Inc ($320k), Ranch Hands Rescue ($196k).
- Does The Tapeats Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Tapeats Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Tapeats Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is The Tapeats Fund based?
- The Tapeats Fund is based in DE.
Play a game based on Tapeats’ filings →