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Cs Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cs 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.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$263kCivil Rights$139kHealth$51kCommunity Improvement$20kEnvironment$7kInternational$3kEducation$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$70,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$232k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVERYBODY VOTES CAMPAIGN$70,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Accelerate Change: $100k → 16%VOTEORG: $70k → 10%Direct Relief: $2k → 14%Planned Parenthood: $1k → 17%Gary Klinsky Children Center: $2k → 20%Citizens for Ethics & Responsibility Crew: $12k → 14%Southern Poverty Law: $1k → 18%ACCELERATE CHANGE: $25k → 16%Coalition for the Homeless: $1k → 17%The Climate Reality Project: $5k → 14%Food Bank for NYC: $1k → 17%Citizens for Ethics & Responsibility Crew: $1k → 14%Climate Science Legal Defense Fund: $1k → 17%VOTER PARTICIPATION PROJECT: $60k → 14%Visiting Nurse Service of New York's: $1k → 17%Voter Registration Project: $50k → 14%THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $12k → 17%Ocean Conservancy: $1k → 14%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $50k → 17%UN Refugee Campaign for Syria: $1k → 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 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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
3
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
4
Climate Central Inc

Climate central, inc. (the organization") is an independent not-for-profit organization of leading scientists, technology experts and communication professionals that are dedicated to researching and reporting on climate change and its…

Science & Tech
5
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
6
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
7
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
10
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
11
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
12
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voter Registration Project; the most unlike its peers is Ocean Conservancy. 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

12 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. 12 of the 21 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVERYBODY VOTES CAMPAIGN: $70,000 · OtherEVERYBODY VOTES CAMPAIGNVOTER PARTICIPATION PROJECT: $60,000 · OtherVOTER PARTICIPATION PROJECTVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECTYALE UNIVERISTY: $20,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERISTYCitizens for Ethics & Responsibility Crew: $13,000 · OtherCitizens for Ethics & Responsibility CrewTHE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $12,000 · Other+7 more: $7,809 · OtherACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $125,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INCVOTEORG: $70,000 · Civil RightsVOTEORGICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOO…THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $5,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · EnvironmentDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 · InternationalFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$232,809Civil Rights$195,000Education$50,000Environment$6,000International$2,000Community Improvement$1,000Crime & Legal$1,000

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 budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVOTEORG: $70,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON BATH & TENNIS CLUB CHARITABLE FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cs Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cs Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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