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Farvue Foundation Inc

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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$9.9MInternational$3.6MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MFood & Nutrition$920kAnimals$625kReligion$450kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $475k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.1M
$50,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Natural Resources Defense Council$500,000
Doctors Without Borders$500,000
Earthjustice$500,000
Southern Environmental Law Center$300,000
World Central Kitchen$300,000
Environmental Law & Policy Center$150,000
Americares$150,000
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$150,000
Re-Wild$150,000
New York Botanical Garden$150,000
Environmental Working Group$150,000
Akashinga$100,000
Friends of the High Line$100,000
Direct Relief$100,000
Capital Area Food Bank$100,000
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 (FY22–25, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Miriam's Kitchen: $75k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $75k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $75k → 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

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 56 repeat orgs$900k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
17

Total granted

$20M
$650k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+20%

Still filing today

93%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • EARTHJUSTICE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +26%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +13%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CB
    CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +118%
  • CI
    CERES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +29%
  • EA
    ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY GROUP
    one grant, 2023 · $80k

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
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
10
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Joseph Robert Shaw Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterEquine Therapy ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Affordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%11%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr15%33%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,933

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.

04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 78 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
43/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EARTHJUSTICE — $2,100,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICENATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,500,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $750,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $600,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INCENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $600,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUPENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $400,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF T…SOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND — $350,000 · Environment+13 more — $1,030,000 · Environment+13 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,050,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES U…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,050,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $650,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCDIRECT RELIEF — $550,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $300,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCI…FLYING KITES INC — $200,000 · International+2 more — $100,000 · InternationalSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $1,100,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTA…PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C — $450,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL …Individual grant recipient — $450,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $235,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL AND ENE…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · OtherICIVICS INC — $150,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $350,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAF…MIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $225,000 · OtherMIRIAM'S KITCHEN+16 more — $790,000 · Other+16 moreREWILD — $600,000 · AnimalsAKASHINGA INC — $325,000 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $250,000 · AnimalsBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $110,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals International — $100,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc — $75,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE LEAGUE — $75,000 · Animals+3 more — $105,000 · AnimalsSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $775,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $200,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $190,000 · HealthVILLAGE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP — $50,000 · HealthJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $325,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $255,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA — $65,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $275,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $90,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $75,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Environment$7,330,000International$4,900,000Other$3,950,000Animals$1,640,000Health$1,265,000Arts & Culture$1,015,000Food & Nutrition$655,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $2,100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,050,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $1,100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,050,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $775,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $750,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $650,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $600,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREWILD — $600,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $600,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $550,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $400,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $350,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND — $350,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $325,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAKASHINGA INC — $325,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $275,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $255,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $250,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $235,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC — $225,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFLYING KITES INC — $200,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICIVICS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA — $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc — $110,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals International — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCERES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOME INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE — $95,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDC Greens Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

Wallace Genetic Found…ImpactassetsincGreater Washington Co…Wallace Genetic Found…Chesapeake Bay TrustFrederick Henry Princ…PatagoniaorgThe Shared Earth Foun…Dock Street FoundationThe Chicago Community…The Keith Campbell Fo…The Morris and Gwendo…
Wallace Genetic Foundation II IncDC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wallace Genetic Foundation II Inc · Impactassetsinc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Wallace Genetic Foundation Inc · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Patagoniaorg · The Shared Earth Foundation · Dock Street Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz 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 Farvue Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
  • St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–60%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Farvue Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Farvue Foundation Inc 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.

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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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