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The Targan Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$56k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$11k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Targan Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Targan Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $56k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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

01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Philanthropy$2.6MRecreation & Sports$21kCivil Rights$15kEducation$11kAnimals$11kHealth$11kInternational$11kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $750
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
$11,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$11,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC$11,000
PETSMART CHARITIES INC$11,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$11,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$11,000
OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC$750
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PETSMART CHARITIES INC: $11k → 11%OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $750 → 6%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2.4M → 7%FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION: $15k → 22%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%UNCLE STEVES CAMP INC: $10k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $11k → 17%ZORA HICKS FOUNDATION BISHOP GLINDA HICKS CROMARTIE NU NATION RE-BIRTH: $500 → 16%PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $10k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $100k → 4%SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $11k → 11%NEWARK BETH ISRAEL: $2k → 16%JEWISH MUSEUM: $1k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METRO WEST NJ: $50k → 4%NJ SEEDS: $5k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METRO WEST NJ: $25k → 4%NJ SEEDS: $3k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METRO WEST NJ: $25k → 4%NJ SEEDS: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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.

2
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

5
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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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
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Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $2,411,266 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $200,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC — $11,000 · OtherPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA — $10,000 · OtherUNCLE STEVES CAMP INC — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · Other+3 more — $2,500 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $15,000 · Civil RightsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,000 · InternationalSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $11,000 · EducationPETSMART CHARITIES INC — $11,000 · AnimalsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $11,000 · Health
Philanthropy$2,611,266Other$45,500Civil Rights$15,000International$11,000Education$11,000Animals$11,000Health$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $2,411,266 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETSMART CHARITIES INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Targan Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    2report 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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