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Fain Family Foundation

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.

$25k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$611k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Fain Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$25k100%
FY20184$19kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$25kHousing & Shelter$12kHuman Services$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial Partnership$25,000111%
Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc$5,00011%
Coalition for Compassion & Justice$4,0001n/a
Another Journey$2,8501n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Fain Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fain Family Foundation 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.

About Fain Family Foundation

How much does Fain Family Foundation give?
Fain Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Fain Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Housing & Shelter (27%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Fain Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial Partnership ($25k), Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc ($5k), Coalition for Compassion & Justice ($4k).
Does Fain Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fain Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fain Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Fain Family Foundation based?
Fain Family Foundation is based in AZ.

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 5 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 2023, released 2023. 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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