· Private foundation
Firestone Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| ASCANIO'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| KENNEDY CENTER | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,500 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $3,500 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA | $3,500 |
| OUTPOST PRODUCTIONS | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $3,000 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| NEW MEXICO PHILHAMONIC | $3,000 |
| SEATTLE OPERA | $3,000 |
| PLACITAS ARTIST SERIES | $3,000 |
| EL PUEBLO HEALTH SERVICES | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
65 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- MMMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +139%
- TGThe George Washington University8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +30%
- NMNEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- AACLUone grant, 2023 · $3k
- SBSO BE INSTITUTE OF THE ARTSMYSTERYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…
Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
The florentine opera company is driven to produce the full range of operatic works reflecting the highest musical and theatrical standards, and to support community and education programs that foster the current and next generation of…
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
To be philadelphia's professional producer of quality grand opera, producing a diverse range of repertoire featuring international artists alongside rising young singers, and to produce educational programs which nurture the future and…
The mission of greater miami opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera. by expanding its reach to diverse communities throughout miami and fort lauderdale and wider audiences abroad creating a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Philharmonic Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 93 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 MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
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- Who funds NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds El Pueblo Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds PLACITAS ARTISTS SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds OUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE MUSIC NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SERAPHIC FIRE INC ↗
- Who funds CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds PLACITAS COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Opera Southwest ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO OPERA THEATER ↗
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: Albuquerque Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Music Guild of New Mexico · Opera America Inc · The Meredith Foundation · Vintage Albuquerque Fine Wine & Art Auction · Hancock Family Foundation Inc · Peacock Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Pnm Tnmp 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 Firestone 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.
- Family Voices — 39% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Seraphic Fire Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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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