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First Nonprofit Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 108 grants below total $2,050,244 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,524,074 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,473,830 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $220k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $686k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ohr Eliyahu Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago | $111,111 |
| Yeshivas Ohr Eliyahu Lubavitch Mesivta of | $111,111 |
| Yeshiva and Mesivta Menachem | $111,111 |
| Yeshiva Lubavitch of Baltimore | $111,111 |
| Kollel Bais Boruch Sanz Grybov | $100,000 |
| Tzur Foundation | $100,000 |
| AF of - Rabbinical College of Telz Stone | $100,000 |
| Kollel of Boro Park | $100,000 |
| Tova Uvrucha Inc | $50,000 |
| North Shore Hebrew Academy | $50,000 |
| The Aleph Institute | $50,000 |
| BMA American Israel Relief Foundation | $50,000 |
| American Friends of RCT | $50,000 |
| Be'er Hagolah Institute | $50,000 |
| Donor Fund | $44,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $743k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of First Nonprofit Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 71 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, 49% 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
- TDTORAH DAY SCHOOL OF DALLAS3× · 2017–2020 · $303k · revenue +39%
- TATHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $300k · revenue +29%
- NSNORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY2× · 2017–2021 · $150k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- OEOhr Eliyahu Lubavitch Mesivta of Chone grant, 2021 · $333k
- MMMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +36%
- FDFLEUR DE QUEone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -23%
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.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
Developmental services center (dsc) supports people with disabilities in living a rich and meaningful life.
Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Welllife Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Boys Gymnastics. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
119 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. 119 of the 307 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 TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FLEUR DE QUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
- Who funds AMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds MORASHA OLAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OPEN EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds KAPAYIM INC ↗
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 Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Trustmark Foundation · Ferree Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397
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 First Nonprofit 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.
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Children's Golf Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kids in Distress Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute 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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