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FA Furniture Foundation Furniture Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$626kEmployment$20kCommunity Improvement$5kHealth$3kReligion$3k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WithIt Scholarship Foundation$15,000
App State University Foundation$12,000
The Foundation of Caldwell Communit$10,000
UNC Chapel Hill$7,500
Appalachian State University$5,000
Itawamba Community College$2,500
University of Georgia$2,500
University of Connecticut$2,500
Lees-McRae College$2,500
Bethany Lutheran College$2,500
Greensboro College$2,500
Jackson State University$2,500
VA Polytechnic Institute$2,500
Catawba Valley Community College$2,500
University of Michigan$1,250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GORDON COLLEGE: $3k → 10%Bethany Lutheran College: $3k → 15%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%University of Connecticut: $3k → 11%King University: $3k → 15%NC State University: $5k → 8%CVCC Foundation: $22k → 12%UNC Chapel Hill: $8k → 13%The Foundation of Caldwell Communit: $17k → 16%American Home Furn HOF: $10k → 16%Western Carolina University: $5k → 18%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%The Foundation of Caldwell Communit: $10k → 16%CVCC FOUNDATION: $16k → 12%AHF HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $35k → 16%CVCC FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $19k → 16%Intl Society of Furniture Designers: $5k → 16%CVCC FOUNDATION: $11k → 12%Caldwell Comm College Tech Inst: $5k → 16%Bienestock Furniture Library Associ: $5k → 16%UNC GREENSBORO: $4k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
MS
AL
GA
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$496k · 23 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
44

Total granted

$496k
$214k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+11%

Still filing today

35%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • EH
    EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +13%
  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +14%
  • 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
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
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
Wilson College

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

Education
3
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
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
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
6
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
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
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
9
Roberts Wesleyan University

As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.

Education
10
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
11
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
12
Union University

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Lutheran College Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 75 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CVCC Foundation: $151,127 · OtherCVCC FoundationAppalachian State University: $76,250 · OtherAppalachian State UniversityThe Foundation of Caldwell Communit: $46,951 · OtherThe Foundation of Caldwell CommunitAHF HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherAHF HALL OF FAME FOUNDATIONApp State University Foundation: $24,000 · Other+54 more: $270,250 · Other+54 moreWITHIT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · EducationWITHIT SCHOLARSHIP …Greensboro College: $15,000 · EducationGreensboro CollegeLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $9,500 · EducationLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVER…EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationEMORY & HENRY UNIVE…HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSI…LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 · EducationGORDON COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+9 more: $22,500 · Education+9 more
Other$603,578Education$127,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWITHIT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetWOMEN IN THE HOME INDUSTRY TODAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetGreensboro College: $15,000 over 4y, 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 budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT 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 budgetUniversity of Michigan: $3,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHENS COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $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 budgetMississippi College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗

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.

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

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 FA Furniture Foundation Furniture Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from FA Furniture Foundation Furniture Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Gordon College: 0% 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, 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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 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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