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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 74-2936881

Tingari Foundation

A private foundation in Austin, TX. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 8 grants and $618,800 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Tingari Foundation Co Melissa D Abe
509A West Lynn St
Austin, TX 78703
(512) 782-0005
Form and materials
The foundation has no formal application form for submission of requests. Letters of inquiry, with a brief description of the project and range of financial support needed, are accepted for initial contact. More specific information on the foundation's application guidelines are available on the website at www.tingarisilverton.org.
Deadlines
None
Restrictions
The foundation works primarily with organizations and programs serving the central texas region and internationally through australia based non-governmental organizations. The foundation supports specific programs of social entrepreneurial ventures which reduce socioeconomic disparity and advance economic and social inclusion. We are particularly dedicated to supporting ventures enabling people/communities finding themselves in predicaments of disadvantage to attain the skills and resources that enable their own management out of adversity. The foundation makes grants only to qualified tax-exempt organizations pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the u.s. Internal revenue code; for international grants, the recipient organization must be the "equivalent" of a u.s. Public charity, or a situation where the foundation can exercise appropriate "expenditure responsibility" in connection with the award of the grant.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $618,800

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $11,063,619

  • Tax year 2024

    $600,000

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $11,047,588

  • Tax year 2023

    $672,000

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $11,011,513

  • Tax year 2022

    $695,000

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $11,835,416

  • Tax year 2021

    $585,000

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $12,696,796

  • Tax year 2020

    $599,880

    Grants listed
    18
    Assets, end of year
    $12,233,672

  • Tax year 2019

    $689,365

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $11,538,819

  • Tax year 2018

    $662,562

    Grants listed
    15
    Assets, end of year
    $11,484,716

Grants paid in 2025

8 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Fidelity Charitable - Luckless PhilanthropiesCincinnati, OH

    To support organization's purpose

    $155,000
  2. Fidelity Charitable - the Quiddity FundCincinnati, OH

    To support organization's purpose

    $155,000
  3. Globalgiving- SYINC10F ConsortiumWashington, DC

    To support organization's purpose

    $80,000
  4. The 19th NewsAustin, TX

    To support organization's purpose

    $75,000
  5. The New PhilanthropistsAustin, TX

    To support organization's purpose

    $60,000
  6. Charities Aid Foundation America - MoneymobAlexandria, VA

    To support organization's purpose

    $50,000
  7. Charities Aid Foundation America - Sewing the Seeds AustraliaAlexandria, VA

    To support organization's purpose

    $32,800
  8. Globalgiving - Business for Better SocietyWashington, DC

    To support organization's purpose

    $11,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Arts and culture1 grant $75,00056% of the total
  2. Philanthropy and grantmaking1 grant $60,00044% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Ohio2 grants $310,000
  2. Texas2 grants $135,000
  3. District of Columbia2 grants $91,000
  4. Virginia2 grants $82,800

Officers, directors and trustees

4 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Pamela M RyanCHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT Hours 1Pay $0
  • Melissa D AbelSECRETARY Hours 16Pay $45,889
  • Dr DT OgilvieDIRECTOR Hours 1Pay $0
  • Serafina MaioranoDIRECTOR Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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