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Fife Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2023
81
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2023 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 81 grants below total $82,590, the rows itemized in this filing. The $133,980 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,390 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k80 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
11
States reached
$903k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN TCHNION SOCIETY$10,000
ICA$6,000
HUNTER PARK COMMUNITY LEAGUE$4,200
REBUILDING WORKPLACE$4,000
BLACK SWAN ACADEMY$2,500
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,500
COMMUNITY MEDIATION MARYLAND (CMM)$2,500
PAYOMET PERFORMING ARTS$2,085
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$2,000
350.ORG$1,815
VCU SCHOOL OF NURSING$1,800
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$1,800
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$1,500
KCRW$1,200
UNICEF$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Downtown Women's Center: $1k → 14%Downtown Women's Center: $1k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 14%REACH INC: $2k → 14%Cameron K Gallagher Foundation: $200 → 6%Cameron K Gallagher Foundation: $200 → 6%Jewish Family Services: $2k → 22%Jewish Family Services: $2k → 22%Red Cross: $2k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 22%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $580 → 22%Red Cross: $2k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $1k → 14%Safe Harbor: $500 → 22%Safe Place for Youth: $1k → 14%Safe Harbor: $500 → 22%Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan: $300 → 17%Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan: $250 → 17%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $100 → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100 → 17%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
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 108 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

108 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2023, 74 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
158

Total granted

$316k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+40%

Still filing today

64%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEducationOther
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

  • CM
    COMMUNITY MEDIATION DC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $45k · revenue +219% · 27% of their budget
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +98%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +85%
  • BU
    BOSTON UNIVERSITY WHEELOCK SCHOOL O
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • DC
    DIVERSE CITY FUND SOCIAL GOOD FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
5
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
6
Npr Foundation

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…

—
7
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
8
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
9
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
10
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
11
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
12
National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

148 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 148 of the 317 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
147/148
Grantees still filing
112/148
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETYJewish Community Federation of Rich: $11,080 · OtherTemple Beth-El: $10,625 · OtherAMERICAN TCHNION SOCIETY: $10,000 · Other+141 more: $214,104 · Other+141 moreAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $16,700 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWI…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,600 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCI…International Rescue Committee INC: $7,175 · InternationalInternational…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $6,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS …FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,100 · International+7 more: $6,675 · International+7 moreCOMMUNITY MEDIATION DC: $45,250 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY ME…Community Mediation Maryland Inc: $4,000 · Crime & LegalCommunity Me…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,150 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $1,900 · Crime & LegalNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $7,700 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,150 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $5,077 · Civil RightsGLSEN INC: $4,600 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $4,500 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,950 · Civil Rights+3 more: $3,000 · Civil RightsCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $7,318 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropyTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,030 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,800 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLEC: $4,000 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · HealthWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $1,000 · Health+4 more: $1,900 · HealthJewish Family Services Inc: $4,300 · Human ServicesSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,500 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA JAZZ FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesREACH EDUCATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR: $1,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,630 · Human Services
Other$275,809International$59,250Crime & Legal$53,300Civil Rights$32,977Philanthropy$21,848Health$20,950Human Services$20,430

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION DC: $45,250 over 2y, 27% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $16,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $7,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $7,318 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 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.

The Community Foundat…Carmax FoundationRobert G Cabell III a…The Mary Morton Parso…McKesson Foundation I…Williams Mullen Found…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Dominion Energy Chari…Nachman-Marks Foundat…Kathryn & W H Schwarz…Wilbur Moreland Haven…Universal Leaf Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Fife Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fife Family 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 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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