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TSG Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202022.

Education$47kFood & Nutrition$33kHealth$15kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$8kInternational$4kAnimals$2kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k7 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,689
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA Treatment Center$10,000
Kristi House$5,000
Holt International$4,000
Charles M Schultz Museum$2,689
Hawaii Meals on Wheels$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Irvine Valley College Foundation$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Alexandra House: $3k → 7%Families in Transition: $1k → 14%Mimi's Pantry: $5k → 8%Holt International: $4k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

5
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

6
The Houston Food Bank

Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…

7
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
8
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Health Trust

The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.

Health
10
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
11
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank

The jacobs & cushman san diego food bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in san diego county. its mission is to provide nutritious food to people in need, advocate for the hungry, and educate the public about hunger-related…

Food & Nutrition
12
Regional East Texas Food Bank

Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Meals On Wheels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mimis Pantry. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $11,666 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOur Lady of the Lake University — $5,000 · OtherOur Lady of the Lake UniversityFIU Student Food Pantry — $5,000 · OtherFIU Student Food PantryU of TX - Rio Grande Valley — $5,000 · OtherU of TX - Rio Grande ValleyTexas AM Food Pantry - Kingsville — $5,000 · OtherTexas AM Food Pantry - KingsvilleFlorida AM University — $5,000 · OtherFlorida AM UniversityUniversity of Texas - El Paso — $5,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas - El PasoConcordia College - Selma — $5,000 · OtherConcordia College - SelmaUnion Station — $5,000 · OtherUnion StationTarrant Area Food Bank — $5,000 · OtherTarrant Area Food BankNC STATE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYTexas AM Int University — $5,000 · OtherTexas AM Int UniversityCharles M Schultz Museum — $2,689 · Other+12 more — $9,943 · Other+12 moreCASA TREATMENT CENTER — $15,000 · HealthCASA TREATME…MIMIS PANTRY — $5,000 · Human ServicesMIMIS PANT…HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesHOLT INTER…ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesALEXANDRA …FAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC — $1,166 · Human ServicesFAMILIES I…HAWAII FOODBANK INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOO…Central Texas Food Bank Inc — $5,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Te…HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEA…Tuskegee University — $5,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationCRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500 · EducationKRISTI HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Animals
Other$79,298Health$15,000Human Services$12,666Food & Nutrition$12,500Education$10,500Crime & Legal$5,000Animals$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCASA TREATMENT CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTuskegee University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIMIS PANTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKRISTI HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC — $1,166 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO BUSINESS ACTION NETWORK INC — $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIrvine Valley College Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINOS IN TRANSIT — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CASA TREATMENT CENTER
  • Who funds Tuskegee University
  • Who funds MIMIS PANTRY
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc
  • Who funds KRISTI HOUSE INC
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank
  • Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
  • Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC
  • Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC
  • Who funds LATINO BUSINESS ACTION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds Irvine Valley College Foundation
  • Who funds CRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LATINOS IN TRANSIT

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization TSG Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 49%
  • Kristi House Inc49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to TSG Foundation?

Find your warmest path to TSG Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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