· Private foundation
Fife Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 62 grants below total $72,730 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,227 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,497 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k60 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $15,400 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $4,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,000 |
| MCV SCHOOL OF NURSING | $1,700 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND | $1,500 |
| GLSEN | $1,200 |
| KCRW (1709 TAX CODE) | $1,200 |
| CODEP (OXYGEN FOR INDIA) | $1,200 |
| 350.ORG | $1,100 |
| MAZON | $1,000 |
| OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| LA MISSION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2021, 67 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- CMCOMMUNITY MEDIATION DC2× · 2019–2020 · $45k · revenue +219% · 27% of their budget
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +98%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC3× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +81%
Funded once
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +101%- BUBOSTON UNIVERSITY WHEELOCK SCHOOL Oone grant, 2020 · $5k
- DCDIVERSE CITY FUND SOCIAL GOOD FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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,…
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…
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…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henrico County Court Appointed Special Advocates 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
137 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. 137 of the 273 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 COMMUNITY MEDIATION DC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Community Mediation Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds BLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLEC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
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: 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
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 Fife Family 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Community Mediation Maryland Inc — 37% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Provincetown Community Compact Inc — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Provincetown Film Societyinc — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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