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THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS

THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $930,982 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($298,010). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$124k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$931k
Net assets
$118k
16/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What The Tlc Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors does

Mission

TLC is a health-related human services organization dedicated to supporting the 1-in-20 individuals experiencing body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) through advocacy, awareness, connection, health education, celebration, and equitable access to effective evidence-based treatments.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. TLC is a health-related human services organization dedicated to supporting the 1-in-20 individuals experiencing body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) through advocacy, awareness, connection, health education, celebration, and equitable access to effective evidence-based treatments.

    $307,571 spent$16,463 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $307,571.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 73 ($934k) Expenses 70 ($1.4M) Net assets 60 ($731k)2019 Revenue 110 ($1.4M) Expenses 57 ($1.2M) Net assets 80 ($982k)2020 Revenue 70 ($903k) Expenses 41 ($832k) Net assets 86 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 72 ($919k) Expenses 41 ($829k) Net assets 93 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 63 ($813k) Expenses 28 ($576k) Net assets 103 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 20 ($262k) Expenses 36 ($726k) Net assets 66 ($807k)2024 Revenue 31 ($404k) Expenses 41 ($826k) Net assets 34 ($413k)2025 Revenue 10 ($124k) Expenses 22 ($440k) Net assets 10 ($118k)
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Revenue (10)Expenses (22)Net assets (10)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.6M to $819k (−49%).

$1.6M
$819k
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$826k
$420k
$118k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 3% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$740k
’17
−$486k
’18
$251k
’19
$71k
’20
$91k
’21
$237k
’22
−$464k
’23
−$423k
’24
−$316k
’25
0.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Lamia El-Sadek

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed11111111128766
Joined·+1+0+3+2+4+1+0+0
No longer listed·10318210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $114k → $109k.

12 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS.

32%
largest funder
53%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 42% · 2019 55% · 2020 44% · 2021 45% · 2022 31% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

63% of THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

85% of THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $142k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.

NY
NJ
CT
MO
DE
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $789k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 21%Fundraising 9%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS?
THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $930,982 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($298,010). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $930,982 in grants to THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $298,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing