How much did FANG FOUNDATION grant in FY2019?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of FANG FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

food

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2019 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

Under $10k5 grants · $28k
$10k–50k17 grants · $180k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES MAINE$20,000
FARM CAFE$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE WATAUGA COUNTY PUBLIC$10,000
DONORSCHOOSE ORG$10,000
PENICK VILLAGE$10,000
FRIEND TO FRIEND$10,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE INC$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
PATTEN FREE LIBRARY$10,000
AIDS FUND$10,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RRED CROSS$10,000
FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INC$10,000
PARTNERS CAININES$10,000
WELCOMING THE STRANGER$10,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Resources for Independent Living Inc

Assisting disabled individuals to live and function independently

Human Services

Beacon Village

Beacon Village provides compassionate and supportive shelter for unhoused individuals ready to transform their lives and establish roots in their community.

Human Services

First Friends of New Jersey and

Provide assistance to detained immigrants and asylum seekers.

Crime & Legal

Samaritan Ministries Inc

Provide temporary housing to people in crisis situations, counselors are availiable 24 hours a day and other services are available 24 hours a day.

Philanthropy

First Grace Community Alliance

Public Charity - Housing. Immigration Support

Housing & Shelter

Freedom From Bondage Inc

Women's recovery residence for alcoholics and addicts - We provide a "safe" recovery environment for women who are trying to get sober and clean.

Health

Dennysville Housing

Provide housing for individuals who are elderly or have disabilities

Human Services

Lord's Pantry of Downingtown

Provide emergency food supplies to needy

Human Services

Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

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Freedom House Inc

To provide compassionate, confidential, free services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Housing & Shelter

Care Corps' Lifehouse

Providing the path to stability

Housing & Shelter

Providence Home

Homeless shelter

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

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

10/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$130,000Human Services$40,000Education$20,000Housing & Shelter$18,500Health$10,000Crime & Legal$8,071

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.

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.

North Carolina Community FoundationNC13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation FANG 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES MAINE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 36.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 813604505 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES MAINE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Fang Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fang Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FANG FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fang Foundation?

More from the funding graph

FANG FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fang Foundation?

More from the funding graph