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Faro 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$625k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$4.6MEnvironment$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.4MAnimals$432kPublic Safety & Disaster$415kEducation$400kHuman Services$250kHealth$114kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BUSHWICK STARR THEATER$625,000
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY$200,000
Individual grant recipient$102,500
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$100,000
HARLEM GROWN INC$100,000
FUTURE COMMUNITIES INC$100,000
ARTHUR MILLER FOUNDATION$30,000
CTAOP FOUNDATION$30,000
HOLLYWOOD INDIES LITTLE LEAGUE$5,000
02The need
03

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%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WAVES FOR WATER INC: $149k → 10%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $75k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $5k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $5k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ID
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI

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.

04

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 · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 12 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
38

Total granted

$6.5M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+15%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +2%
  • TG
    THE GOODEN CENTER
    2× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +2%

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.

1
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
California Film Institute

The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…

Arts & Culture
3
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
4
Cooperation L a

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

Arts & Culture
5
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
6
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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7
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
8
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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9
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
10
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
11
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
12
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Upper Ojai Relief. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr11%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%45%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr11%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/37
the rest of the field
13%
14,087/105,284

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.

05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 53 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
20/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BUSHWICK STARR THEATER — $3,420,000 · OtherTHE BUSHWICK STARR THEATERKV SETTLEMENT LLC — $980,000 · OtherKV SETTLEMENT LLCIndividual grant recipient — $386,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY HARVEY RECOVERY FUND — $300,000 · Other+30 more — $1,254,593 · Other+30 moreHARLEM GROWN INC — $1,525,000 · EnvironmentHARLEM GROWN INCPACIFIC RIVERS — $156,856 · EnvironmentPACIFIC RIVERS+1 more — $46,863 · EnvironmentSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC — $400,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEAR…THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM…THE WALDEN SCHOOL — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WALDEN…THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $50,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFF — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200,000 · EducationALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $100,000 · EducationKukolu — $300,000 · Community ImprovementBig Sunday — $50,000 · Community ImprovementFREE THE WORK — $30,000 · Community ImprovementWAVES FOR WATER INC — $149,000 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND — $75,000 · Human ServicesFOOD ON FOOT — $15,000 · Human ServicesSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO INC — $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$6,341,093Environment$1,728,719Arts & Culture$950,000Education$400,000Community Improvement$380,000Human Services$239,000Housing & Shelter$110,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHARLEM GROWN INC — $1,525,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC — $400,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetKukolu — $300,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALDEN SCHOOL — $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWAVES FOR WATER INC — $149,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCouncil on International Non-Theatrical Events Inc — $110,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetWHITE RIBBON ALLIANCE INC — $103,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Sunday — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFF — $50,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance — $46,863 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GOODEN CENTER — $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHUR MILLER FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetThe Labelle Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFREE THE WORK — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHollywood Indies Little League co Stanley M Brooks — $25,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetFULCRUM ARTS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC — $18,900 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD ON FOOT — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLand is Life Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 …Silicon Valley Commun…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Paypal Charitable Giv…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
California Community FoundationCA18× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organization 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines