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The Tess Majors Foundation

THE TESS MAJORS FOUNDATION (the foundation) will provide opportunities and access to individuals, particularly children and young adults, with curiosity and passion in the areas of music, theatre, nature, environmentalism, literature, and journalism, especially in smaller communities where access to enrichment in these areas is limited.…

$174k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$44,876
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$381k
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$76kYouth Development$45kEnvironment$36kRecreation & Sports$30kFood & Nutrition$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About The Tess Majors Foundation

How much does The Tess Majors Foundation give?
The Tess Majors Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $174,431 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Tess Majors Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Youth Development (22%), Environment (17%).
Who are The Tess Majors Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: The Launch Pad Teen Center ($45k), Downtown Newport Artscapes Inc ($40k), Nature Camp Inc ($36k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Tess Majors Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Tess Majors Foundation based?
The Tess Majors Foundation is based in TN.

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 7 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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