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Flaming 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.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$347kRecreation & Sports$250kEducation$185kHuman Services$136kYouth Development$50kAnimals$45kFood & Nutrition$26kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION$80,000
ST JUDE CHIDLREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$50,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC$30,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$25,000
AMERICAN ADVERTISING FOUNDATION - BASEBALL$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $30k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $30k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15k → 14%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10k → 11%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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$741k · 11 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$741k
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+25%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $140k · revenue +29%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -30%
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
8
Connect Foundation

Connect is an innovation instigator established to cultivate san diego's life science and tech communities. a trusted partner for more than 30 years, we propel our region's entrepreneurs as they create and scale their companies from…

Education
9
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
10
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
11
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
12
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of San Diego; the most unlike its peers is San Diego Public Library Foundation. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AZTEC CLUB: $240,000 · OtherAZTEC CLUBKURE IT CANCER RESEARCH: $70,000 · OtherKURE IT CANCER RESEARCHBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $50,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $30,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGOTHE SALVATION ARMY: $30,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $54,000 · Other+8 moreTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $130,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE FOUND…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNN…SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LI…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $140,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE …THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSP…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED W…YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF S…RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $50,000 · PhilanthropySAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $25,000 · AnimalsSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $10,000 · AnimalsJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $26,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$494,000Education$185,000Health$175,000Human Services$85,000Philanthropy$50,000Animals$35,000Food & Nutrition$26,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,000 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.

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.

David C Copley Founda…Price Philanthropies …Sempra FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
David C Copley FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Flaming Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flaming Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 26 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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