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Fain Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $614k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $893k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ESCUELA BILINGUE INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FIEDLER HILLEL | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD | $100,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN | $100,000 |
| TEMPLE OF THE HIGH COUNTRY | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $68,346 |
| MOSES BROWN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ACHIEVE MIAMI INC | $50,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $50,000 |
| OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH AM | $35,875 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA | $35,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
75 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUniversity of Miami5× · 2019–2023 · $874k · revenue +67%
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD6× · 2019–2024 · $358k · revenue +10%- FTFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC4× · 2021–2024 · $218k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- AAIEFone grant, 2019 · $81k
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -9%
- ARAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -97%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
73 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 126 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds ESCUELA BILINGUE INTERNACIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DIAPER BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GWEN CHERRY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGLADES LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT 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.
Open a dossier: The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Peacock Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · The Shepard Broad Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Cobb Family Foundation Inc · Coral Gables Community Foundation Inc · Ansin Foundation Inc · The Israel Rose Henry & Robert Wiener Charitable Foundation
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 Fain Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.