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The Taylor Family Foundation

Founded in 1990, THE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION (ttff) has helped more than 100,000 children and provided support to nearly 200,000 famiies in northern california living with chronic or life-threatening illnesses and youth at risk by funding wellness programs at no cost.

$649k
Granted FY2022
25
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.

Health$318kRecreation & Sports$252kHuman Services$105kYouth Development$97kEducation$94kArts & Culture$25kEmployment$20kCommunity Improvement$16kOther$0
02FY2022 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 25 grants below total $408,947 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $648,661 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $239,714 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k9 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$13,629
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK$55,225
CAMP OKIZU$41,970
CELIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORCAL$35,442
FIRE FIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE$24,835
SUNBURST PROJECTS$20,248
REINS IN MOTION FOUND$20,000
JACK'S HELPING HAND$19,500
GO BEYOND$16,534
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$15,940
CAMP WINNING HANDS$15,908
VESTIA$15,000
SHARED ADVENTURES$13,867
KARA$13,629
DIABETES YOUTH FAMILIES$10,024
SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JACKS HELPING HANDS: $25k → 12%SOCIETY FOR DISABILITES: $3k → 15%A BRIGHTER DAY: $5k → 9%JACKS HELPING HANDS: $25k → 12%SOCIETY FOR DISABILITES: $2k → 15%A BRIGHTER DAY: $5k → 9%Youth Homes: $10k → 9%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 9%EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK: $20k → 10%VESTIA: $15k → 9%EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK: $20k → 10%WE CARE: $10k → 9%VESTIA: $5k → 9%EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK: $55k → 10%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 24% of The Taylor Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Taylor Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$606k · 25 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
20

Total granted

$606k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+33%

Still filing today

88%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • JH
    JACKS HELPING HAND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +130%
  • EN
    EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK
    5× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +149% · 46% of their budget
  • RI
    REINS IN MOTION FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • YH
    Youth Homes Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -6%
  • TF
    TOOLS FOR PEACEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +116%
  • PV
    PAJARO VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Inclusion Revolution Inc a California Nonprofit Corporation

Camp Revolution provides a safe, fun and motivational overnight outdoor camping experience for differently-abled teens and adults. Our goal is to empower each camper with confidence, boost self-esteem, experience outdoor adventures and…

Human Services
2
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education
3
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
4
Camp Kaleidoscope

Camp Kaleidoscope, with offices on the Stanford University campus, trains student leaders to support San Francisco Bay Area children who have or had a parent with cancer. Through a free, week-long overnight camp and year-round programming,…

Human Services
5
Down Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area

Our mission is to empower, inspire and support people with Down Syndrome, their families and the community that serves them, while fostering awareness and acceptance in all areas of life.

Health
6
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
7
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
8
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
9
Easterseals Northern California

Easterseals northern california (esnorcal) is creating a more equitable world so people with developmental disabilities can choose their path. we do this by reimagining how care and support can be better connected to fill gaps in human…

Health
10
Sierra Vista Child & Family Services

Sierra Vista Child & Family Services (SVCFS) is a non-profit community based organization providing services for children, youth, adults, and families since 1972 to over 16,000 children and families yearly. The agency provides an extensive…

Human Services
11
Chasing 7 Dreams

Provide advocacy for children with developmental disabilities and parent support. our services include a social recreation program, an inclusive sports program, career opportunities for adults and early intervention for babies 0-4 years old

Human Services
12
Ala Costa Centers a Program for Developmentally Disabled

To provide each student or participant with the access, skills, and opportunities needed to become successful and productive members of society, and to encourage them to have some fun along the way. The Organization offers support and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern California Bleeding Disorders Foundation Formerly Hemophilia Foundtn and the most unlike its peers is Tinysmiles Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDog and Cat RescueHealthcare Foundations and …School Parent Support Organ…Environmental Advocacy and …Family Philanthropic Founda…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Mental Health Ser…Independent K-8 SchoolsPerforming Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr18%53%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/64
the rest of the field
14%
12,709/89,252

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

57 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 58 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
41/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JACKS HELPING HAND INC — $103,000 · Human ServicesJACKS HELPING HAND INCEXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK — $95,225 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORKSHARED ADVENTURES — $28,367 · Human ServicesSHARED ADVENTURESWe Care Services For Children — $20,000 · Human ServicesWe Care Services For ChildrenVESTIA INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesVESTIA INCA Brighter Day — $10,226 · Human ServicesYouth Homes Inc — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,360 · Human ServicesOKIZU FOUNDATION — $41,970 · OtherOKIZU FOUNDATIONSunburst Projects — $30,248 · OtherSunburst ProjectsFIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE — $29,315 · OtherFIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTEIBD SUMMER CAMP FOUNDATION — $16,534 · OtherIBD SUMMER CAMP FOUNDATIONEQUI-ED INC — $16,000 · OtherEQUI-ED INCKARA — $13,629 · OtherRIDE TO WALK INC — $11,500 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE ISLAND CITY — $11,473 · OtherVACAVILLE POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE — $9,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $12,000 · Other+17 more — $78,129 · Other+17 moreCELIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $35,442 · HealthCELIAC COMMUNITY …Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $21,901 · HealthPediatric Brain T…SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION — $19,950 · HealthSQUARE PEG FOUNDA…SUNFLOWER HILL — $19,000 · HealthSUNFLOWER HILLARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $15,940 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDAT…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND — $15,908 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPIT…PAJARO VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH TRUST — $8,000 · HealthPAJARO VALLEY COM…George Mark Childrens Fund — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthRunning with Love — $40,000 · EducationRunning with…School of Imagination Inc — $20,900 · EducationSchool of Im…TOOLS FOR PEACE — $10,000 · EducationTOOLS FOR PE…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $9,103 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD …FOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER — $7,662 · EducationFOUNDATION F…Northern Light School — $7,500 · EducationNorthern Lig…THE SPRINGSTONE SCHOOL — $5,172 · Education+1 more — $3,000 · EducationREINS IN MOTION FOUNDATION — $51,750 · Recreation & SportsDYF — $10,024 · Recreation & SportsNETWORK FOR GOOD — $45,800 · Public Safety & DisasterDiablo Regional Arts Association — $17,500 · Arts & CultureDO IT FOR THE LOVE — $7,500 · Arts & CultureMusic in the Vineyards Inc — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$292,178Other$270,298Health$142,141Education$103,337Recreation & Sports$61,774Public Safety & Disaster$45,800Arts & Culture$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJACKS HELPING HAND INC — $103,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK — $95,225 over 5y, 46% of budgetREINS IN MOTION FOUNDATION — $51,750 over 7y, 14% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $45,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION — $41,970 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRunning with Love — $40,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetSunburst Projects — $30,248 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE — $29,315 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSHARED ADVENTURES — $28,367 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $21,901 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSchool of Imagination Inc — $20,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWe Care Services For Children — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVESTIA INC — $20,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION — $19,950 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSUNFLOWER HILL — $19,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetDiablo Regional Arts Association — $17,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEQUI-ED INC — $16,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $15,940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND — $15,908 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKARA — $13,629 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDE TO WALK INC — $11,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE ISLAND CITY — $11,473 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetA Brighter Day — $10,226 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetDYF — $10,024 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Homes Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOOLS FOR PEACE — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetVACAVILLE POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE — $9,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $9,103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVERMORE RODEO FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH TRUST — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER — $7,662 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Light School — $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDO IT FOR THE LOVE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED CAMPS CONFERENCES AND RETREATS INC — $7,413 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRISTOL HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $6,839 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTINYSMILES INC — $6,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetSOCIETY FOR DISABILITIES — $5,360 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPRINGSTONE SCHOOL — $5,172 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLIVERMORE VALLEY WINEGROWERS FOUNDATION — $5,050 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISE SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMusic in the Vineyards Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS AND STUDENTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRATITUDE GLOBAL — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST ROSE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…Marin Community Found…California Foundation…East Bay Community Fo…Lowell Berry Foundati…Priem Family Foundati…Rotarian Foundation o…The Moca FoundationCharis FundSacramento Region Com…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA17.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · East Bay Community Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Priem Family Foundation · Rotarian Foundation of Livermore · The Moca Foundation · Charis Fund · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Taylor Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Taylor Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Taylor Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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