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· Public charity

The Tegan and Sara Foundation

To invest in the potential of 2slgbtq+ communities

$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$78kHealth$60kEducation$25kCivil Rights$17k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $144,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $134,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP BRAVE TRAILS$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE LAUREL FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51k · 3 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +188% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$51k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+188%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Civil RightsScience & TechArts & CultureHealthPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BT
    Brave Trails
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -11%
  • OV
    OUTRIGHT VERMONT
    2× · 2018–2019 · $16k · revenue +535%
  • TD
    Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -11%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +152%
  • CL
    Camp Laurel Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +29%
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
Global Philanthropy Project Inc

Global Philanthropy Project (GPP or the Organization) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex…

Philanthropy
2
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
3
Glaad Inc

Founded forty years ago, glaad is the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ("lgbtq") media advocacy organization promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of people and issues across all…

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4
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues

Funders for lgbtq issues work to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at enhancing the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promoting equity, and advancing racial, economic and…

Civil Rights
5
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
6
Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network Dba Gsa Network

To empower and train LGBTQ students and young people to organize and advocate for safe schools and healthy communities.

Civil Rights
7
National Trans Bar Association
Education
8
National Lgbtq Task Force Action Fund Inc

National lgbtq task force action fund, founded in 1974 as the national gay and lesbian task force, inc., works to build the grassroots political power of the lgbt community to win complete equality. we do this through direct and grassroots…

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9
Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.

Civil Rights
10
San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Inc

San diego lesbian gay bisexual transgender pride, inc. is a non-profit volunteer-led human rights and arts & culture organization. its mission is to foster pride, equality, and respect for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender…

Civil Rights
11
Outfront Minnesota

Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. in our effort to…

Civil Rights
12
National Lesbian and Gay Law Association

Nlgbtq+ bar association's purpose is to promote justice in and through the legal profession for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community (referred to collectively as the community) and its allies, and to provide a means to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Astraea Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is 1N10 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 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Brave Trails: $20,000 · Civil RightsBrave TrailsAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHT: $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIA…1N10 INC: $11,000 · Civil Rights1N10 INCNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACADEM…UCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONDONORSCHOOSEORG: $10,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGEQUALITY NORTH CAROLINA: $10,000 · OtherEQUALITY NORTH…THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $6,750 · OtherTHE ASTRAEA FO…QORDS: $6,000 · OtherQORDSOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $16,000 · Public Safety & DisasterOUTRIGHT V…Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $15,000 · HealthTranslife…Camp Laurel Foundation: $15,000 · Human ServicesCamp Laur…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Civil Rights$51,000Science & Tech$25,000Education$25,000Other$22,750Public Safety & Disaster$16,000Health$15,000Human Services$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tegan and Sara Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tegan and Sara Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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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.

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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