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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Doctors Without Borders$500,000
Earthjustice$500,000
Natural Resources Defense Council$500,000
Southern Environmental Law Center$300,000
World Central Kitchen$300,000
Environmental Working Group$150,000
Re-Wild$150,000
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$150,000
Environmental Law & Policy Center$150,000
Americares$150,000
New York Botanical Garden$150,000
Friends of the High Line$100,000
The Barack Obama Foundation$100,000
WAMU$100,000
WETA$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+9%
+16%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • EA
    ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY GROUP
    one grant, 2023 · $80k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
41/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 GARDENENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $600,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUPCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $600,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INCENVIRONMENTAL 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 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $75,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $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 · HealthJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthVILLAGE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $600,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetREWILD: $600,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $600,000 over 3y, 1.9% 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 budgetSOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND: $350,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $350,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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 budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $200,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCERES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDC Greens Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WALLACE CENTERS OF IOWA: $65,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Farvue Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farvue Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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