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The Tres Chicas Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$330k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 17
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$7.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Tres Chicas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalAnimalsCrime & LegalEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY2025still arriving8$180k13%
FY20247$160k0%
FY202316$340k31%
FY202217$495k41%
FY202117$491k24%
FY202017$415kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$740kEducation$330kCivil Rights$285kInternational$210kAnimals$170kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kHuman Services$100kCrime & Legal$95kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
HI
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($885k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChordoma Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Bar Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFirst Nations Development Institute: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Disaster Search Dog Foundation: $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZenbycat: $50,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCouncil for Native Hawaiian Advancement: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Disaster Philanthropy Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFibershed: $26,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSanta Barbara Equine Assistance and Evacuation Team: $25,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetHias Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gentle Barn Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 22.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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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About The Tres Chicas Foundation

How much does The Tres Chicas Foundation give?
The Tres Chicas Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $330,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Tres Chicas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (15%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are The Tres Chicas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($150k), Direct Relief ($125k), Chordoma Foundation ($110k).
Does The Tres Chicas Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Tres Chicas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Tres Chicas Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Tres Chicas Foundation based?
The Tres Chicas 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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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