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The Tegan and Sara Foundation

To invest in the potential of 2slgbtq+ communities

$145k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$10k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$102k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Tegan and Sara Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23
Civil RightsScience & TechPublic Safety & DisasterHealthHuman ServicesArts & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$10k0%
FY20231$10k100%
FY20211$10k0%
FY20202$25k100%
FY20194$47k75%
FY20183$36k100%
FY20172$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$78kHealth$60kEducation$25kCivil Rights$17k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Academy of Sciences$25,00010%
Brave Trails$20,00021%
American Association of Physicians for Human Right$20,00014%
Outright Vermont$16,00022%
Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline$15,00020%
Camp Laurel Foundation$15,00012%
1n10 Inc$11,00011%
Fractured Atlas Inc$10,00010%
Donorschooseorg$10,00010%
Qords$6,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tegan and Sara Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Academy of Sciences: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrave Trails: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Association of Physicians for Human Right: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOutright Vermont: $16,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Laurel Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget1n10 Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to The Tegan and Sara Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Tegan and Sara 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.

About The Tegan and Sara Foundation

How much does The Tegan and Sara Foundation give?
The Tegan and Sara Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $144,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Tegan and Sara Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (43%), Health (33%), Education (14%).
Who are The Tegan and Sara Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Academy of Sciences ($25k), Brave Trails ($20k), American Association of Physicians for Human Right ($20k).
Does The Tegan and Sara Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Tegan and Sara Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Tegan and Sara Foundation based?
The Tegan and Sara Foundation is based in CA.

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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $81k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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