How much did FARO FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of FARO 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

—

2020

emergency relieffood

2021

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2022

—

2023

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

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k2 grants · $60k
$50k–250k5 grants · $603k
$250k+1 grant · $625k

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE BUSHWICK STARR THEATER$625,000
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY$200,000
HOLLYWOOD HOOFBEATS$102,500
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$100,000
FUTURE COMMUNITIES INC$100,000
HARLEM GROWN INC$100,000
ARTHUR MILLER FOUNDATION$30,000
CTAOP FOUNDATION$30,000
HOLLYWOOD INDIES LITTLE LEAGUE$5,000

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 (FY17–20, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 38% 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of FARO FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

FARO FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.4M · 12 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.4M

$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

+76%

Still filing today

58%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthOther

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

HG
HARLEM GROWN INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +222%
SC
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +10%
TG
THE GOODEN CENTER
2× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +55%

Funded once

KS
KV SETTLEMENT LLC
one grant, 2021 · $980k
K
KUKOLU
one grant, 2023 · $300k · 53% of their budget
UW
UNITED WAY HARVEY RECOVERY FUND
one grant, 2017 · $300k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Food Forward Inc

Food forward(r) is one of the nation's largest independent urban produce recovery organizations.

Food & Nutrition

Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc

Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through the market match program at 22 farmers markets, publication of peoples guide to welfare, health and other services, and involvement with low income residents in…

Education

Hollywood Food Coalition

The mission of the hollywood food coalition (hfc) is to feed and serve the immediate needs of the hungry every day of the year so they can build better lives.

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Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts. we serve as the only cross-discipline, cross-sector convenor for the arts and culture…

Arts & Culture

Inquilinos Unidos

Dedicated to empowering low-income tenants through community organizing, education and advocacy to fight for safe, decent and affordable housing in Los Angeles.

Unclassified

Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture

West Hollywood Community Housing Corp

The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.

Housing & Shelter

Farm2People

Farm2People's mission is to secure local harvests and fight hunger in Greater Los Angeles. We purchase surplus and onsold harvests from local, regional, underserved and independent farmers at a fair market rate while increasing…

Food & Nutrition

Sustainable Economic Enterprises of La

Food access la's mission is to build sustainable food systems and fresh food access, promote social and cultural activities that benefit low-to-moderate income residents of los angeles county, and support california small and mid-size…

Community Improvement

Newfilmmakers Los Angeles

Newfilmmakers los angeles (nmfla) is designed to showcase innovative works by emerging filmmkaers from around the world.

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment

Los Angeles Performance Practice

The organization supports the production and presentation of contemporary theater and dance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. We create opportunities for artists to develop their projects…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Project Angel Food. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/30

the rest of the field

10,118/120,730

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.

06the grantee network

28 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)

28/28

Grantees still filing

21/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,937,956Environment$1,681,856Arts & Culture$700,000Community Improvement$380,000Human Services$239,000Housing & Shelter$110,000Education$100,000

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.

California Community FoundationCA17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Network for Good · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 FARO 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

05Through 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: KUKOLU.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861582329 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 KUKOLU, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Faro Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Faro 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.

FARO 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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Faro Foundation?

More from the funding graph

FARO 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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Faro Foundation?

More from the funding graph