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FA Furniture Foundation Furniture Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$97k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of FA Furniture Foundation Furniture Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CVCC Foundation$22,000
App State University Foundation$12,000
American Home Furn HOF$10,000
Scott Grove CO SCAD Admissions Dept$5,000
WithIt Scholarship Foundation$5,000
Greensboro College$5,000
Caldwell Comm College Tech Inst$5,000
Appalachian State University$3,750
Ohio State University$2,500
Emory Henry College$2,500
NE Mississippi Community College$2,500
High Point University$2,500
University of Michigan$2,500
Michigan Technological University$2,500
U of California Santa Barbara$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%GORDON COLLEGE: $3k → 10%STEVEN'S COLLEGE: $3k → 9%Muhlenberg College: $3k → 11%University of Pennsylvania: $3k → 22%CALIFORNIA STATE CHANNEL ISLAND: $3k → 10%UCLA: $3k → 14%U of California Santa Barbara: $3k → 14%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $3k → 15%Lander University: $3k → 18%University of Michigan: $3k → 14%Michigan Technological University: $3k → 14%Central Michigan University: $3k → 19%University of North Alabama: $3k → 13%SAMFORD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%STEPHEN COLLEGE: $3k → 17%Marantha Baptist University: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 10%University of Wisconsin-Madison: $3k → 10%King University: $3k → 15%NC State University: $5k → 8%Gaston College: $3k → 9%CVCC Foundation: $22k → 12%UNC CHAPEL HILL: $3k → 13%The Foundation of Caldwell Communit: $17k → 16%American Home Furn HOF: $10k → 16%Western Carolina University: $5k → 18%Johnson Wales University: $3k → 14%University of Southern Indiana: $3k → 15%NC State University: $5k → 8%CVCC Foundation: $22k → 12%THE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 16%Greensboro College: $5k → 16%NC State University: $5k → 8%CVCC Foundation: $22k → 12%The Foundation of Caldwell Communit: $10k → 16%Greensboro College: $5k → 16%CVCC FOUNDATION: $22k → 12%The Foundation of Caldwell Communit: $10k → 16%CVCC FOUNDATION: $22k → 12%AHF HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $35k → 16%CVCC FOUNDATION: $16k → 12%CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $19k → 16%Intl Society of Furniture Designers: $5k → 16%CVCC FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%Caldwell Comm College Tech Inst: $5k → 16%Bienestock Furniture Library Associ: $5k → 16%CVCC FOUNDATION: $11k → 12%UNC GREENSBORO: $4k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$425k · 21 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
35

Total granted

$425k
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+30%

Still filing today

33%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +14%
  • EH
    EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +13%
  • LU
    LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • AH
    AHF HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • WI
    WOMEN IN THE HOME INDUSTRY TODAY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +42%
  • CC
    CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $19k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
5
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
6
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
7
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
8
Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
9
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
12
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi College and the most unlike its peers is Withit Scholarship Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr14%9%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr12%61%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr14%38%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr12%28%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,152

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CVCC Foundation — $151,127 · OtherCVCC FoundationAppalachian State University — $71,250 · OtherAppalachian State UniversityThe Foundation of Caldwell Communit — $36,951 · OtherThe Foundation of Caldwell CommunitAHF HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherAHF HALL OF FAME FOUNDATIONWOMEN IN THE HOME INDUSTRY TODAY INC — $20,000 · OtherCALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $19,000 · Other+48 more — $218,250 · Other+48 moreWITHIT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EducationWITHIT SCHOLARSHIP…Greensboro College — $12,500 · EducationGreensboro CollegeLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY — $9,500 · EducationLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVE…HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERS…EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · EducationEMORY & HENRY UNIV…LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 · EducationGORDON COLLEGE — $5,000 · Education+7 more — $17,500 · Education+7 more
Other$551,578Education$104,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWITHIT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetWOMEN IN THE HOME INDUSTRY TODAY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetGreensboro College — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY — $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMississippi College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKING UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHENS COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WITHIT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WOMEN IN THE HOME INDUSTRY TODAY INC
  • Who funds Greensboro College
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds GORDON COLLEGE
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS
  • Who funds Mississippi College
  • Who funds MARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation IncGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Ibm International Foundation · Tua Blankenshipjustice Mem Sch Fnd Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization FA Furniture Foundation Furniture Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Gordon College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to FA Furniture Foundation Furniture Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to FA Furniture Foundation Furniture Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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