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The Tapeats Fund at a glance

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The Tapeats Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$898k
Granted FY2025still arriving
95
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$1.3MEducation$869kEnvironment$333kHuman Services$260kHealth$203kArts & Culture$160kYouth Development$159kFood & Nutrition$144kOther$0
02FY2025 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $300k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $418k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC$130,000
HOUSTON ZOO INC$50,000
MGVP INC$35,000
YELLOWSTONE FOREVER$30,000
RANCH HANDS RESCUE$25,000
MOMENTUM EDUCATION$20,000
PEREGRINE FUND INC$20,000
HOUSTON ZOO INC$20,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$20,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$20,000
PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM$20,000
DAYNAS FOOTPRINT$15,000
CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL$15,000
BREAKTHROUGH HOUSTON$15,000
PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$12,500
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 5%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 11%CAMP ARANZAZU INC: $5k → 17%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 5%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 11%CAMP ARANZAZU INC: $5k → 17%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 5%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 11%CAMP ARANZAZU INC: $5k → 17%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 5%CAMP ARANZAZU INC: $5k → 17%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 5%CAMP ARANZAZU INC: $5k → 17%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 5%CAMP ARANZAZU INC: $5k → 17%FII - NATIONAL: $5k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $5k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $5k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $25k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $5k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $5k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $5k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $5k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $20k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $5k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $5k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $5k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $5k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $5k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $5k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $5k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $5k → 16%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
ID
MT
MN
NY
WY
IA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
AR
OK
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of The Tapeats Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Tapeats Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 91 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
18

Total granted

$4.6M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+10%

Still filing today

93%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • WC
    WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $740k · revenue +167%
  • Houston Zoo Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +52%
  • RH
    Ranch Hands Rescue
    6× · 2020–2025 · $196k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • OR
    OUR RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -16%
  • AI
    ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +112%
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
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
The Houston Audubon Society

To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…

Environment
3
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
4
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
5
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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6
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
7
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
8
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
9
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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10
Houston Pets Alive

Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.

Animals
11
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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12
Evolve Houston

Improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by supporting and enabling the greater houston area to increase ev adoption.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dog Is My Copilot. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

113 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. 113 of the 121 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/113
Grantees still filing
80/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $740,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INCHouston Zoo Inc: $320,000 · AnimalsHouston Zoo IncRanch Hands Rescue: $195,500 · AnimalsRanch Hands RescueMGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: $170,000 · AnimalsMGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary…+7 more: $122,000 · Animals+7 moreTeach for America Inc: $120,000 · EducationTeach for America I…POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $100,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING A…Breakthrough Houston: $90,000 · EducationBreakthrough Housto…YES Prep Public Schools Inc: $65,000 · EducationYES Prep Public Sch…KIPP Texas Inc: $65,000 · EducationKIPP Texas IncGood Reason Houston Inc: $57,500 · EducationGood Reason Houston…ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $50,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE…EMERGE Fellowship: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 · EducationThe Brookwood Community Inc: $30,000 · EducationSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $30,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $30,000 · Education+5 more: $67,500 · Education+5 moreTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $105,500 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $82,500 · OtherCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLThe Houston Food Bank: $70,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $60,000 · OtherMomentum Education: $50,000 · OtherOURTOWN: $45,000 · OtherPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $52,500 · OtherTHE WOODS PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherTEAM RUBICON INC: $50,000 · Other+44 more: $752,500 · Other+44 morePRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesPRISON ENT…MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesMARBRIDGE …Collaborative for Children: $45,000 · Human ServicesCollaborat…Pathways for Little Feet: $30,000 · Human ServicesPathways f…DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $30,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR …PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $30,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PA…Camp Aranzazu Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesCamp Aranz…BRIDGEYEAR: $25,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEYEARCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $15,000 · Human Services+5 more: $22,500 · Human ServicesYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $120,000 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $30,000 · EnvironmentHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentUrban Harvest Inc: $12,500 · Environment+3 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentMotorcycle Missions: $48,000 · HealthThe Georgetown Project: $31,500 · HealthWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR TEEN HEALTH: $30,000 · HealthNora's Gift Foundation Inc: $30,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $25,000 · HealthThe Council on Recovery: $22,500 · Health+2 more: $7,500 · HealthBo's Place: $62,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureLone Star Flight Museum: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science: $30,000 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUE: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Animals$1,547,500Education$808,000Other$1,318,000Human Services$437,500Environment$287,500Health$224,500Arts & Culture$172,500

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 budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $740,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $320,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue: $195,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetMGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: $170,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $105,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBreakthrough Houston: $90,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $82,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBo's Place: $62,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGood Reason Houston Inc: $57,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $52,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetMomentum Education: $50,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE WOODS PROJECT: $50,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetMotorcycle Missions: $48,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetCollaborative for Children: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $40,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGE Fellowship: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $36,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMedical Bridges Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $34,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Georgetown Project: $31,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TEEN HEALTH: $30,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRO-VISION INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNora's Gift Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $30,000 over 6y, 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.

  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue ↗
  • Who funds MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project ↗
  • Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Houston ↗
  • Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bo's Place ↗
  • Who funds Good Reason Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Momentum Education ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Motorcycle Missions ↗
  • Who funds Collaborative for Children ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGE Fellowship ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Medical Bridges Inc ↗
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Georgetown Project ↗
  • Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Coalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County ↗
  • Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationHouston Endowment IncHarry S & Isabel C Ca…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Shell USA Company Fou…The Powell FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Marek Family Foundati…The Elkins Foundation
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX63.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 The Tapeats Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tapeats Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    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.

    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 121 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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