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Fife Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2023
81
Itemized grants FY2023
78
Organizations funded FY2023
56%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$83k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$500
Largest grant, FY2023
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
61 to 130
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
11
Total assets, FY2023
$903k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Fife Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202378$81k56%
FY202161$57k51%
FY2020130$150k39%
FY2019112$106k78%
FY201797$79kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$116kCrime & Legal$57kInternational$56kHealth$43kScience & Tech$40kPhilanthropy$34kArts & Culture$31kEducation$26kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 145 grantees
All grantees of Fife Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Mediation DC$45,250227%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,60030%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$7,70030%
International Rescue Committee INC$7,17530%
Human Rights Watch Inc$6,00030%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$5,80020%
Equal Justice Initiative$5,15010%
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc$5,07740%
Young Musicians Foundation$5,04940%
Syrian American Medical Society Foundation$5,00010%
350org$4,91540%
Glsen Inc$4,60040%
The Black Swan Academy Inc$4,50020%
United Way Inc$4,50010%
International Institute of New England Inc$4,50030%
Jewish Family Services Inc$4,30030%
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collec$4,00030%
Safe Place for Youth Inc$4,00040%
Community Mediation Maryland Inc$4,00020%
Higher Achievement Program Inc$4,00030%
More Than Words Inc$3,81040%
The Virginia Holocaust Museum$3,60020%
Friends of the Public Garden Inc$3,50030%
Los Angeles Mission Inc$3,50030%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$3,50020%
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc$3,50030%
Prostate Cancer Foundation$3,03030%
Anti-Defamation League$2,95040%
Newton Food Pantry Inc$2,49050%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$2,15020%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$2,10040%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$2,00040%
California Jazz Foundation Inc$2,00021%
Reach Education Inc$2,00010%
Syrian American Medical Society$2,00010%
Downtown Women's Center$2,00020%
Feeding America$2,00010%
Beth Sholom Lifecare Community Corporation$1,9002n/a
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization$1,80030%
Friends of the Earth$1,55020%
Trustees of Boston University$1,50010%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$1,40030%
Hias Inc$1,30030%
Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc$1,30020%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$1,25010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,15040%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,10020%
Feed More Inc$1,10030%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$1,07510%
The Richmond Symphony$1,02530%
Jewish Community Federation of Richmond$1,00010%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$1,00020%
Gates Philanthropy Partners$1,00010%
Provincetown Community Compact Inc$1,0001n/a
Virginia Repertory Theatre$1,00010%
Safe Harbor$1,00020%
3LPlace Inc$1,00020%
Americares Foundation Inc$1,00010%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$1,00010%
Books for Africa Inc$1,00010%
Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project$1,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$1,00020%
Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund$1,00010%
The Actors' Fund of America$1,00020%
Als Family Charitable Foundation Inc$90030%
Caritas$90030%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$85020%
Virginia Opera Association Inc$80040%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$77010%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$75020%
First Book$65030%
Global Fund for Women Inc$60010%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$60020%
The Valentine Museum$60030%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$60020%
Jewish Community Center of Richmond$58010%
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc$55020%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$52010%
Spoonfuls$51510%
Company One Inc$50010%
Union Rescue Mission$50010%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$50010%
Bring on the Music Inc$50010%
Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc$50010%
North Texas Food Bank$50010%
Every Mother Counts$50010%
City Parks Foundation Inc$50020%
Minnies Food Pantry Inc$50010%
National Kidney Foundation Inc$50010%
Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Incorporated$50010%
Dexter Keezer Community Fund$50011%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$50010%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$50010%
Provincetown Film Societyinc$49520%
Native Land Conservancy Inc$42511%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$40020%
Richmond Triangle Players Inc$40020%
Reach Out for Life$40020%
Library of Virginia Foundation$4003n/a
The Cameron K Gallagher Foundation$40020%
New York Shakespeare Festival$38020%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$37020%
Hebrew College$36010%
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts$3501n/a
Jewish Women International$31820%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$30020%
Playwrights Horizons Inc$30010%
West Side Center for Community Life$30010%
Food Bank for New York City$30010%
Theatreworks USA Corporation$30010%
Henrico Humane Society Inc$30020%
Speakeasy Stage Company Inc$30010%
Children's Defense Fund$25010%
Pga Tour Charities Inc$25010%
Tuckahoe Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc$20010%
New Art Center in Newton Inc (Fka) Newton Arts Center Inc$20010%
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc$20020%
The Faison Center Inc$20010%
Read to Them Inc$20010%
United Network for Organ Sharing$20010%
Link Global$20010%
Ask Childhood Cancer Foundation$20010%
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation$20010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$20010%
Virginia Historical Society$20020%
The Doe Fund Inc$20010%
Jett Foundation Inc$20020%
Ars Nova Theater I Inc$20010%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$18010%
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$15010%
American Cancer Society Inc$10010%
The Innocence Project Inc$10010%
Human Rights Campaign Inc$10010%
Babyin Babyout Inc$1001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$10010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$10010%
Henrico County Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc$10010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$10010%
Best Buddies International Inc$10010%
Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers$1001n/a
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$10010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$8010%
Temple Shalom Inc$501n/a
Mindful Schools$5010%
The Loveland Foundation Inc$501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 165 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Fife Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 137 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Mediation DC: $45,250 over 2y, 27% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $7,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $7,175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $5,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: $5,077 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Musicians Foundation: $5,049 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSyrian American Medical Society Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350org: $4,915 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGlsen Inc: $4,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Black Swan Academy Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Institute of New England Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Services Inc: $4,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Emotional and Mental Health Collec: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Place for Youth Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Mediation Maryland Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHigher Achievement Program Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMore Than Words Inc: $3,810 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Holocaust Museum: $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Public Garden Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Mission Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation: $3,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $2,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNewton Food Pantry Inc: $2,490 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $2,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Jazz Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetReach Education Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSyrian American Medical Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDowntown Women's Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Earth: $1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeed More Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $1,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 137.

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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.

The Community Foundation IncVA34× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Williams Mullen Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Nachman-Marks Foundation Trust Attn J Nachman · Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Universal Leaf 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.

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About Fife Family Foundation Inc

How much does Fife Family Foundation Inc give?
Fife Family Foundation Inc reported 81 itemized grants totaling $82,590, out of $133,980 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 130 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fife Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (11%), Crime & Legal (5%), International (5%).
Who are Fife Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Community Mediation DC ($45k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($11k), NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc ($8k).
Does Fife Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fife Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fife Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Carmax Foundation, Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation.
Where is Fife Family Foundation Inc based?
Fife Family Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 317 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $129k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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