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The Terrell Family Foundation at a glance

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The Terrell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$28kRecreation & Sports$24kAnimals$5kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$452k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONO ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
ROARING FORK CYCLING INC$5,000
HEAL THE BAY$3,250
DOHENY STATE BEACH INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION$3,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MONO ARTS COUNCIL: $5k → 10%LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $19k → 14%SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ROARING FORK CYCLING INC: $5k → 7%DOHENY STATE BEACH INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%HEAL THE BAY: $5k → 14%DOHENY STATE BEACH INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 10%HEAL THE BAY: $3k → 14%ECO CENTER INC: $6k → 10%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 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
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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2
Ballona Wetlands Conservancy

The preservation and maintenance of environmentally sensitive coastal wetlands.

Environment
3
San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.

Animals
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
San Francisco Estuary Institute

Provide scientific support and tools for decision making and communication through collaborative efforts.

Environment
6
San Luis Obispo County Bicycle Coalition

Bike slo county inspires, educates, advocates, and works to build a safe, healthy and connected community through bicycling.

Public Benefit
7
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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8
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
9
Ecology Center

Inspiring and building a sustainable, healthy, and just future for the east bay, california, and beyond.

Environment
10
South Bay Boardriders Club

Promote ocean sport activities within the South Bay community and protect our local beaches and ocean environments.

Environment
11
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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12
Save the Bay

Our vision is a future where everyone benefits from a healthy San Francisco Bay, resilient to climate change and ringed by 100,000 acres of vibrant tidal marsh.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal the Bay; the most unlike its peers is Mono Arts Council. 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

8 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.

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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEAL THE BAY: $8,500 · EnvironmentHEAL THE BAYDOHENY STATE BEACH INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION: $8,250 · EnvironmentDOHENY STATE BEACH INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATIONECOCENTER INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentECOCENTER INCTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $5,250 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATIONHermosa Beach Diamond Sports Inc Hermosa Beach Little League: $19,000 · EducationHermosa Beach Diamond Sports Inc H…SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $5,250 · AnimalsSANTA BAR…ROARING FORK CYCLING INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsROARING F…MONO ARTS COUNCIL: $5,000 · OtherMONO ARTS…
Environment$27,500Education$19,000Animals$5,250Recreation & Sports$5,000Other$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHermosa Beach Diamond Sports Inc Hermosa Beach Little League: $19,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOHENY STATE BEACH INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION: $8,250 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetECOCENTER INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROARING FORK CYCLING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMONO ARTS COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 8 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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