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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$5.7MEducation$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.4MEnvironment$676kArts & Culture$479kHealth$373kFood & Nutrition$370kInternational$305kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $614k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $893k
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESCUELA BILINGUE INTERNATIONAL$150,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FIEDLER HILLEL$125,000
FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN$100,000
TEMPLE OF THE HIGH COUNTRY$100,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$100,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$68,346
ACHIEVE MIAMI INC$50,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$50,000
MOSES BROWN SCHOOL$50,000
OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$45,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$40,000
TEMPLE BETH AM$35,875
IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA$35,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE South Florida: $6k → 13%HOPE South Florida: $6k → 13%HOPE South Florida: $3k → 13%Seafarers' House Inc: $3k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $360 → 15%Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc: $360 → 15%Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc: $360 → 15%Miami Diaper Bank: $25k → 15%Miami Diaper Bank: $25k → 15%Miami Diaper Bank: $25k → 15%MIAMI DIAPER BANK: $25k → 15%Dave & Mary Alper Jewish Community Center: $1k → 15%Dave & Mary Alper Jewish Community Center: $1k → 15%Dave & Mary Alper Jewish Community Center: $1k → 15%Dave & Mary Alper Jewish Community Center: $1k → 15%Dave & Mary Alper Jewish Community Center: $1k → 15%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

AK
ME
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
AZ
AR
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 75 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
29

Total granted

$11M
$267k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+32%

Still filing today

60%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UO
    University of Miami
    5× · 2019–2023 · $874k · revenue +67%
  • UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
    6× · 2019–2024 · $358k · revenue +10%
  • FT
    FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $218k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • A
    AIEF
    one grant, 2019 · $81k
  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • EC
    EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +74%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
University of Miami
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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
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
8
Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc

The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel

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9
Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum

Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 126 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
55/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Temple Beth AM: $3,906,947 · OtherTemple Beth AMFiedler Hillel at Northwestern University: $526,000 · OtherFiedler Hillel at Northwestern UniversityUM Endowed Chair Judaic Studies: $481,514 · OtherUM Endowed Chair Judaic StudiesTEMPLE OF THE HIGH COUNTRY: $343,421 · OtherPardes Institute: $275,500 · Other+76 more: $2,300,672 · Other+76 moreUniversity of Miami: $874,142 · EducationUniversity of MiamiUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $358,293 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFO…ACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $200,000 · EducationACHIEVE MIAMI INCESCUELA BILINGUE INTERNACIONAL: $195,000 · EducationESCUELA BILINGUE INT…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $150,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $120,001 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $95,675 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $86,125 · Education+9 more: $227,300 · Education+9 moreGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $1,047,927 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIA…UNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $175,950 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …+2 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropyFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC: $217,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $160,900 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $120,000 · EnvironmentEVERGLADES LAW CENTER INC: $75,000 · Environment+3 more: $17,500 · EnvironmentBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $214,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $30,000 · InternationalART OMI INC: $11,000 · International+2 more: $11,000 · InternationalDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC: $89,000 · HealthHEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC: $60,450 · HealthAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $8,000 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $178,346 · Civil RightsMCCJ INC: $8,000 · Civil Rights
Other$7,834,054Education$2,306,536Philanthropy$1,258,877Environment$590,900International$316,000Health$212,450Civil Rights$186,346

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 budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $1,047,927 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $874,142 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $358,293 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC: $217,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $214,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $200,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetESCUELA BILINGUE INTERNACIONAL: $195,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $178,346 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $175,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $160,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $120,001 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA: $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMIAMI DIAPER BANK INC: $100,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $95,675 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC: $89,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $86,125 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEVERGLADES LAW CENTER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetGWEN CHERRY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetHEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC: $60,450 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetOakland Hebrew Day School: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $45,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKYLE ABRAHAMABRAHAM IN MOTION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetART OMI INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCULTIVATE CATSKILL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMCCJ INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.7% 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 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 THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • 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 EVERGLADES LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GWEN CHERRY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH INFORMATION PROJECT INC ↗

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.

The Batchelor Foundat…The Miami Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…Greater Miami Jewish …Peacock Foundation IncThe Kirk FoundationThe Shepard Broad Fou…United Way Miami IncCobb Family Foundatio…Coral Gables Communit…Ansin Foundation IncThe Israel Rose Henry…
The Batchelor Foundation IncFL27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
20report 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.

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 126 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home