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Farrell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k89 grants · $173k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $777k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION | $65,840 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $63,860 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $55,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE | $55,000 |
| ST FRANCIS FRIARYCAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN ORDER | $40,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC | $40,000 |
| BULAMU HEALTHCARE INTERNATIONAL | $35,000 |
| BISHOP SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH | $35,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THOSE IN NEED | $25,000 |
| SCHOOL OF HOLY CROSS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PROKIDS | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $809k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
251 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2024, 148 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $296k · revenue +48%
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $271k · revenue +32%- PRPacific Research Institute For Public Policy5× · 2020–2024 · $162k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- AUAUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS USA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $180k · revenue +54%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALESone grant, 2020 · $118k
- AIAUGUSTA INDEPEDENT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $73k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Casey to the Rescue Dog Transport Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
339 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. 339 of the 462 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS USA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds BULAMU INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON PETSET ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICA VIVA ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Bradford Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Price Philanthropies 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 organization Farrell Family 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.
- Global Communities — 44% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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