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Canfora Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Canfora 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$53kHuman Services$40kHealth$35kEducation$32kCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$5kHousing & Shelter$5kReligion$1k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOSHUA'S PLACE$10,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$5,000
NEW MOMS$5,000
IMERMAN ANGELS$5,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$5,000
ST JUDE'S HOSPITAL$5,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$5,000
FARM FOUNDATION$5,000
THE INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON$5,000
MERCY HOMES$2,500
PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION$2,500
PILOT LIGHT$2,500
DOWN AT THE FARM$2,500
EVANSTON GROWS$2,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS: $10k → 14%NEW MOMS: $10k → 14%NEW MOMS: $5k → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143k · 11 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$143k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IA
    IMERMAN ANGELS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • NM
    NEW MOMS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +23%
  • Feeding America
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • BL
    BUNKER LABS NFP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Institute of Food Technologists

As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…

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2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
4
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
7
International Food Information Council

To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.

Arts & Culture
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
10
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.

Food & Nutrition
11
Women's Foodservice Forum

Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.

Food & Nutrition
12
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc; the most unlike its peers is Imerman Angels. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Feeding America: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaJoshua's Place: $10,000 · Food & NutritionJoshua's PlaceFARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFARM FOUNDATIONGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $7,500 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITO…IMERMAN ANGELS: $25,000 · HealthIMERMAN ANGELSST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEAR…PILOT LIGHT: $5,000 · HealthPILOT LIGHTSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COL…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationNEW MOMS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INCINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesINFANT WELFARE SOC…BUNKER LABS NFP INC: $10,000 · OtherBUNKER LABS NFP …COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNIT…MERCY HOMES: $5,000 · OtherMERCY HOMESDOWN AT THE FARM: $2,500 · OtherDOWN AT THE FARMPACIFIC GARDEN MISSION: $2,500 · OtherPACIFIC GARDEN M…FRIENDS OF ST VICTOR'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherEVANSTON GROWS: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Food & Nutrition$47,500Health$40,000Education$31,500Human Services$30,000Other$26,000Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMERMAN ANGELS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUNKER LABS NFP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPILOT LIGHT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSTON GROWS: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Canfora Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Canfora Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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