· Private foundation
Filkins Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
- $250k+3 grants · $35M
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Class A.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC DBA CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT | $20,702,516 |
| ORBIS | $12,790,068 |
| NANCY LF DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION | $1,063,280 |
| WESTSIDE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OMAHA MEDICAL SOCIETY | $31,349 |
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 (FY19–23, $216k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $116k · revenue +63%- PMPAULI MURRAY CENTER FOR HISTORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE5× · 2019–2023 · $51k · revenue +148%
- COCITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL4× · 2019–2022 · $31k · revenue +29%
Funded once
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +343%- AIALBRIGHT INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $12k
- WPWINTER PARK SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -75%
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.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…
Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
A foundation to support research for Blue Nevus Melanoma (BNM). BNM is an ultra rare condition and an aggressive form of Melanoma cancer. There is a dire need to develop new treatments and drugs for it as the standard of care for Melanoma…
To drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures, for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, usher syndrome, and the spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Oregon health & science university is a nonprofit organization established in 1970 to secure private philanthropic support to advance ohsu's vital missions, and to invest and manage gifts responsibly to honor donors' wishes.
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Philadelphia Trustee Administering Wills Eye Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Nancy Lf Davis Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 26 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
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 PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NANCY LF DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gift of Sight ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds EYE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAULI MURRAY CENTER FOR HISTORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds METRO OMAHA MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE A FARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Columbine Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OMAHA MAGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
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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 Filkins Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.