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Firstman 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.

$15k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$250
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
12 to 37
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$274k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Firstman Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsFood & NutritionArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving29$15k7%
FY202332$14k13%
FY202234$27k9%
FY202132$25k6%
FY202026$20k35%
FY201912$19k17%
FY201834$15k0%
FY201737$18kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$55kHousing & Shelter$16kAnimals$16kArts & Culture$13kEnvironment$8kFood & Nutrition$7kInternational$6kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
WY
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Firstman Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTalbot Hospice Foundation Inc: $32,700 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv: $6,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNevada Humane Society: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $4,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDemocracy Now Productions Inc: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maryland Food Bank Inc: $2,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBackcountry Discovery Routes: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Johns Hopkins Hospital: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Fund of Talbot County Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood Service Center Inc: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the Chesapeake Inc: $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTalbot Humane Co: $1,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $1,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEaston Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPoets in Need: $1,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $763 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding African American Minds Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrighter Christmas Fund Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNevada Land Trust: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake College Foundation Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Dock Street Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Michael and Nancy Klein Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Friel Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

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How do I get to Firstman Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Firstman 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.

About Firstman Family Foundation Inc

How much does Firstman Family Foundation Inc give?
Firstman Family Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $14,963 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Firstman Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (34%), Housing & Shelter (10%), Animals (10%).
Who are Firstman Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Talbot Hospice Foundation Inc ($33k), Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv ($7k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($5k).
Does Firstman Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Firstman Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Firstman Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, The Llandaff Family Trust, The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello.
Where is Firstman Family Foundation Inc based?
Firstman Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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