· Private foundation
Fordi Family Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORIZONS OF KENT & QUEEN ANNE'S | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MORNINGSIDE PARK | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE | $20,000 |
| CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM | $15,000 |
| PALANTE HARLEM INC | $15,000 |
| CHESTER RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK CARES | $10,000 |
| SULTANA PROJECTS | $10,000 |
| GARFIELD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| HOMEPORTS INC | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S STOREFRONT | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| THE ALI FORNEY CENTER | $10,000 |
| COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC | $10,000 |
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 US giving — 86% of grant dollars ($2.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($323k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Beyond the US — 14% of all-years giving ($323k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MDMINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $570k · revenue +11% · 49% of their budget
- KCKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $278k · revenue +99%
- HOHORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TLTHE LUNENBURG FOLK HARBOUR SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $323k
- AOARC OF CARROLL COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +5%
- ALACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION (HERON POINT)one grant, 2024 · $25k
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 promote, for the benefit of the general public, the conservation of land and water natural resources principally in, but not limited to, the town of kent, connecticut.
Ksi provides day habilitation and employment services to people with disabilities. this service is provided in various community settings in addition to the milford skill development center and our ksi southern campus in georgetown. ksi…
The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
The mission of kent affordable housing is to develop, sustain, and advocate for affordable housing in the town of kent, connecticut.
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
To ensure that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) are valued in order that ehy and their families participate fully in and contribute to their community.
Strengthening our community in southern chester county through food, housing, crisis services, and education services.
To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability
To promote healthy, happy and productive lives in caring relationships with others.
To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.
To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eastern Shore Alano Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 54 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 MINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MORNINGSIDE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds Chester River Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PALANTE HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds ARC OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Kent Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HILL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Mediation Upper Shore Inc ↗
- Who funds WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CARES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET HISTORIC CHESTERTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds KENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds United Workers Association 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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Gladwood Foundation · The Clifton Foundation Inc · W Paul Starkey Foundation · Friel Foundation Inc · Barbara L Thomas Foundation · Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn · United Way of Kent County Inc · Saner Family 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 Fordi 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.
- Kent Attainable Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
- Community Mediation Upper Shore Inc — 41% of income from government
- Kent Cultural Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Main Street Historic Chestertown Inc — 10% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 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.