The Tabasgo Foundation is a foundation based in Santa Barbara, California headed by Wayne Rosing and Dorothy Largay, who are the president and secretary respectively. ¹ In 2019, the organization gave $103,836 to the Voter Registration Project for its Everybody Votes project. ²

Finances

According to the Tabasgo Foundation’s 2021 tax returns, the Tabasgo Foundation had $102,061 in total revenue and $11,791 in operating expenses, and it also had $804,820 in total assets at the end of the year. ³ The organization did not pay out any grants in 2021. ⁴

Grantmaking

According to the organization’s 2020 tax returns, it only gives grants to a preselected number of organizations and does not consider unsolicited funding requests. ⁵ In 2019, the organization gave $103,836 to the Voter Registration Project for its Everybody Votes project. ⁶ The Tabasgo Foundation also gave $400,000 in both 2018 and 2019 to Direct Relief International for the Alleviate Poverty project. ^{7 8} The organization previously supported astronomy research at the Las Cumbres Observatory. ⁹

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9. Las Cumbres Observatory. “LCOGT becomes Las Cumbres Observatory.” October 14, 2016. https://lco.global/news/lcogt-becomes-las-cumbres-observatory/.