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Tsais Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Tsais 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.

$15k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$3k
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, FY2017 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$57kEducation$55kHuman Services$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$10kPhilanthropy$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$3,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SILICON VALLEY$2,000
FOOD SHARE INC$2,000
SF FOOD BANK$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
SOUTH HAYWARD PARISH$1,000
FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY$1,000
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC CENTER ON AGING$1,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SANTA CRUZ$1,000
ALL STAR HELPING HAND$1,000
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM$1,000
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 (FY17–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOOD SHARE INC: $3k → 11%SHELTER BOX: $2k → 14%SHELTER BOX: $1k → 9%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%FOOD SHARE INC: $2k → 11%CARING CHOICE: $500 → 18%SHELTER BOX: $1k → 9%FOOD SHARE INC: $500 → 11%SHELTER BOX: $1k → 9%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 → 8%RED CROSS: $2k → 14%CHILDREN NOW: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
AL
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Tsais Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 84%.

Tsais Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$175k · 49 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2022, 39 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
32

Total granted

$175k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+57%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +21%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $8k · revenue +128%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    5× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +9%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • BT
    BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +207%
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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
3
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
4
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

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5
Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.

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6
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
7
Alameda Emergency Food Dba Alameda Food Bank

Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.

Food & Nutrition
8
Berkeley Food Network

The berkeley food network (bfn) works to expand food assistance services to food-insecure berkeley residents. bfn was founded in 2016 to help establish a foundation of good health from which all berkeley residents can pursue opportunity by…

Food & Nutrition
9
Yolo Food Bank

The mission of yolo food bank is to make yolo county a thriving community where everyone has the resources they need to experience health, prosperity, and a high quality of life. Yolo Food bank durably increases food and nutrition security…

Food & Nutrition
10
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
11
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties

Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Food Share Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
44/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF HAYWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $38,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HAYWARD PUBLIC LIBRARYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $6,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $5,500 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,400 · OtherBEST BUDDIES: $5,125 · Other+49 more: $63,950 · Other+49 moreSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $8,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARV…FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $3,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK O…FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR PE…REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $2,500 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMP…Project Open Hand: $1,500 · Food & NutritionProject Ope…CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $500 · Food & NutritionMontessori Childrens House of Hayward: $11,000 · EducationMontessor…Alameda County Library Foundation: $2,000 · EducationAlameda C…826 Valencia: $1,500 · Education826 Valen…The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $1,500 · EducationThe Edibl…+1 more: $500 · EducationFOOD SHARE INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $1,100 · Human Services+3 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,500 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · InternationalBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC: $1,000 · InternationalGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $1,500 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network North America: $1,000 · EnvironmentBaykeeper: $1,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $500 · EnvironmentActerra Action for a Healthy Planet: $500 · EnvironmentUNITED WAY INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$124,475Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$16,500Human Services$15,100International$11,500Environment$5,500Philanthropy$5,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMontessori Childrens House of Hayward: $11,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC: $5,500 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA EMERGENCY FOODLINK: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Asian Pacific Center on Aging: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda County Library Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALTERNATIVES IN ACTION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget826 Valencia: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY GIVING TREE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetABODE SERVICES: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Open Hand: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaykeeper: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAscend Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $500 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.

The San Francisco Fou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Philanthropic Venture…California Foundation…McNabb FoundationJewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…East Bay Community Fo…Fremont Bank Foundati…Sunlight GivingUnited Way of the Bay…The Intuit Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA19.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Fremont Bank Foundation · Sunlight Giving · United Way of the Bay Area · The Intuit 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 Tsais Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tsais Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 86 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 2022, released 2022. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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