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TLG Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

TLG Family Foundation Inc

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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$37kReligion$3kHuman Services$830Environment$800International$500Health$240Community Improvement$200Philanthropy$50Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$886k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMass Amherst Foundation$4,000
Buddhist Association of the United State$2,020
Yale$1,000
Water 22-3936753$500
Doctors Without Borders$500
The Salvation Army$460
American Friends of The Ocean Cleanup$300
Wikimedia Endowment$50
Memorial Sloan Kettering$50
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$50
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%UMass Amherst Foundation: $4k → 12%Harvard Business School: $5k → 16%Angel Pray Child Charity Foundation: $370 → 7%Wikimedia Endowment: $50 → 10%StandUpToCancer: $25 → 14%Buddhist Association of the United State: $2k → 6%Stand Up to Cancer: $25 → 9%Doctors Without Borders: $500 → 17%American Friends of The Ocean Cleanup: $300 → 13%Yale: $1k → 12%St Jude Children's Research Hospital: $50 → 17%Summer Science Program: $10k → 8%CharityChoice Autism Speaks: $15 → 11%The Salvation Army: $460 → 9%Umass: $1k → 12%The Kasangula Talent School Technology Fundraiser by Oogie Art: $35 → 17%Summer Science Program: $10k → 8%U Mass at Amhers: $1k → 12%Columbia Highschool Program: $675 → 17%Umass: $1k → 12%Columbia Highschool Program: $600 → 17%Umass: $500 → 12%Umass: $1k → 17%Mount Holyoke College: $888 → 12%Memorial Sloan Kettering: $50 → 17%Mount Holyoke College: $500 → 12%Memorial Sloan Kettering: $50 → 17%Millburn Short Hills Chinese Association: $200 → 12%Water 22-3936753: $500 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 6 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +475% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$28k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+475%
-11%

Still filing today

33%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther
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

  • SI
    SSP INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +475%
  • U
    Umass
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4k
  • Y
    Yale
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2k

Funded once

  • HB
    Harvard Business School
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • UM
    U Mass at Amhers
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • AP
    Angel Pray Child Charity Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $370
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SSP INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,022 · EducationSSP INTERNATIONAL INCUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INCTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $1,388 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGEHarvard Business School: $5,000 · OtherHarvard Business SchoolUmass: $3,500 · OtherUmassYale: $2,200 · OtherYaleBUDDHIST ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES: $2,020 · OtherBUDDHIST ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATESColumbia Highschool Program: $1,275 · OtherColumbia Highschool ProgramU Mass at Amhers: $1,000 · OtherU Mass at Amhers+11 more: $2,033 · Other+11 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 · InternationalWIKIMEDIA ENDOWMENT: $50 · PhilanthropySTAND UP TO CANCER: $25 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50 · Health
Education$25,410Other$17,028International$500Philanthropy$75Health$50

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSSP INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,022 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $1,388 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA ENDOWMENT: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $25 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.

  • Who funds SSP INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA ENDOWMENT ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 24 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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