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Firestone Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$412kEducation$111kHealth$58kInternational$24kCivil Rights$19kCrime & Legal$12kHuman Services$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,926,552
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB DAF GIVING 360 ACCT ENDING 622$1,926,552
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY VOICES: $1k → 14%FAMILY VOICES: $500 → 14%FAMILY VOICES: $500 → 14%FAMILY VOICES: $500 → 14%FAMILY VOICES: $500 → 14%SERAPHIC FIRE: $1k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $1k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $1k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $1k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $1k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $1k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $1k → 15%SERAPHIC FIRE: $1k → 15%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

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
NM
DC
HI
LA
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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$623k · 65 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
28

Total granted

$623k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+25%

Still filing today

55%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MM
    MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +139%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +30%
  • EP
    El Pueblo Health Services Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • KC
    KENNEDY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
The Santa Fe Opera

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Foundation for Modern Opera
—
3
Arizona Opera Company

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Opera Santa Barbara

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…

Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Opera Association

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Los Angeles Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Florentine Opera Company Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
South Florida Symphony Orchestra Inc

The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.

Arts & Culture
11
Greater Miami Opera Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Philharmonic Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 94 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHWAB DAF GIVING 360 ACCT ENDING 622: $1,926,552 · OtherSCHWAB DAF GIVING 360 ACCT ENDING 622+54 more: $243,315 · Other+54 moreMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI MUSIC P…FLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC: $29,500 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA GRAND…SEATTLE OPERA: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE OPERAAscanio's Purse: $23,500 · Arts & CultureAscanio's Pur…NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNEW MEXICO PH…SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO…PLACITAS ARTISTS SERIES INC: $19,500 · Arts & CulturePLACITAS ARTI…OUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureOUTPOST PRODU…Lyric Opera of Chicago: $16,500 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera o…Houston Grand Opera Association Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE MUSIC NEW MEXICO: $13,500 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $18,500 · Arts & Culture+11 moreThe George Washington University: $23,500 · EducationOberlin College: $19,000 · EducationPLACITAS COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $6,500 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $4,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $3,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 · InternationalSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $7,200 · HealthSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $7,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $4,000 · Crime & LegalGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $9,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$2,169,867Arts & Culture$297,500Education$56,000International$23,500Health$16,700Crime & Legal$12,000Civil Rights$11,500

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 budgetMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC: $29,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $23,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAscanio's Purse: $23,500 over 8y, 30% of budgetEl Pueblo Health Services Inc: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLACITAS ARTISTS SERIES INC: $19,500 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetOberlin College: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC: $16,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE MUSIC NEW MEXICO: $13,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSERAPHIC FIRE INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $7,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPLACITAS COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $6,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetOpera Southwest: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO OPERA THEATER: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY VOICES: $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGABLESTAGE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN GENERAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOLGA KERN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY RIDGE MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBUQUERQUE CHAMBER SOLOISTS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetALBUQUERQUE YOUTH SYMPHONY PROGRAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO JAZZ WORKSHOP INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLI DEO GLORIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIBROS FOR KIDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget1ST STAGE INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds Ascanio's Purse ↗
  • Who funds El Pueblo Health Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗

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.

Albuquerque Community…Ibm International Fou…Music Guild of New Me…Opera America IncThe Meredith Foundati…Vintage Albuquerque F…Hancock Family Founda…Peacock Foundation IncThe Miami Foundation …The Amphion Foundatio…The Aaron Copland Fun…Pnm Tnmp Foundation
Albuquerque Community FoundationNM27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Firestone Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Firestone 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 94 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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