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Fordi Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$284k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
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 2025.

Education$933kArts & Culture$721kPhilanthropy$136kHealth$123kHuman Services$111kRecreation & Sports$89kHousing & Shelter$48kEnvironment$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $220k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF MORNINGSIDE PARK$25,000
HORIZONS OF KENT & QUEEN ANNE'S$25,000
YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE$20,000
PALANTE HARLEM INC$15,000
CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM$15,000
THE CHILDREN'S STOREFRONT$10,000
THE ALI FORNEY CENTER$10,000
GARFIELD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
NATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL$10,000
THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
MINARY'S DREAM ALLIANCE$10,000
COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC$10,000
HOMEPORTS INC$10,000
KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE$10,000
NEW YORK CARES$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.

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF DELAWARE: $2k → 10%YMCA OF DELAWARE: $2k → 10%YMCA OF DELAWARE: $2k → 10%WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 17%WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 17%WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 17%WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 17%HOMEPORTS INC: $10k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $5k → 12%THE KENT CENTER: $5k → 12%THE KENT CENTER: $5k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 12%THE KENT CENTER: $2k → 12%THE KENT CENTER: $2k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $2k → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $2k → 12%THE KENT CENTER: $2k → 12%THE KENT CENTER: $2k → 12%THE KENT CENTER: $2k → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $2k → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $2k → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $2k → 12%THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 12%THE KENT CENTER: $1k → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $1k → 12%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.

Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($323k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$323k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 39 repeat orgs$417k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
14

Total granted

$1.9M
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

69%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • MD
    MINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $570k · revenue +11% · 49% of their budget
  • KC
    KENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $278k · revenue +99%
  • HO
    HORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S
    8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LUNENBURG FOLK HARBOUR SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $323k
  • AL
    ACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION (HERON POINT)
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • AO
    ARC OF CARROLL COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +5%
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
Kent Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
2
Kent-Sussex Industries Inc

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…

Employment
3
Chesapeake Group Homes Inc

The center provides independent living arrangements and recreational activities for handicapped individuals

Human Services
4
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
5
Kent Affordable Housing Inc

The mission of kent affordable housing is to develop, sustain, and advocate for affordable housing in the town of kent, connecticut.

Housing & Shelter
6
Classic Theatre of Maryland Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
The Arc Kent County Inc

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.

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8
Kennett Area Community Service

Strengthening our community in southern chester county through food, housing, crisis services, and education services.

Human Services
9
Chesapeake Care Resources Inc

To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability

Health
10
Camden Community Alliance & Resource Inc

To promote healthy, happy and productive lives in caring relationships with others.

Human Services
11
Community Development Network of Maryland Inc

To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.

Community Improvement
12
Community Mediation Maryland Inc

To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 54 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LUNENBURG FOLK HARBOUR SOCIETY: $323,422 · OtherTHE LUNENBURG FOLK HARBOUR SOCIETYKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC: $277,500 · OtherKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INCSULTANA PROJECTS: $94,500 · OtherSULTANA PROJECTSGUNSTON SCHOOL - HERON FUND (WHITE TEAM): $75,000 · OtherGUNSTON SCHOOL - HERON FUND (WHITE TEAM)YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $45,000 · OtherChester River Health Foundation Inc: $45,000 · Other+26 more: $329,000 · Other+26 moreMINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INC: $570,000 · EducationMINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INCHORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S: $90,000 · EducationHORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'SKENT SCHOOL INC: $88,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOL INCPALANTE HARLEM INC: $38,200 · Education+2 more: $22,500 · EducationCommunity Food Pantry: $34,500 · Human ServicesHOMEPORTS INC: $23,500 · Human ServicesKent Center Inc: $19,500 · Human ServicesWE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $18,400 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $4,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF MORNINGSIDE PARK INC: $88,400 · Recreation & SportsTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCHURCH HILL THEATRE INC: $18,500 · Arts & CultureMAIN STREET HISTORIC CHESTERTOWN INC: $14,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentSHORERIVERS INC: $16,500 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterKENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,189,422Education$808,700Human Services$100,400Recreation & Sports$88,400Arts & Culture$69,500Environment$47,500Housing & Shelter$40,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INC: $570,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetKENT CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC: $277,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetHORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S: $90,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF MORNINGSIDE PARK INC: $88,400 over 6y, 33% of budgetKENT SCHOOL INC: $88,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChester River Health Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetPALANTE HARLEM INC: $38,200 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Food Pantry: $34,500 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetCOMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC: $30,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARC OF CARROLL COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEPORTS INC: $23,500 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetKent Center Inc: $19,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Mediation Upper Shore Inc: $18,500 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCHURCH HILL THEATRE INC: $18,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetWE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $18,400 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC: $16,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAIN STREET HISTORIC CHESTERTOWN INC: $14,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUnited Workers Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF KENT COUNTY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTERTOWN ARTS LEAGUE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGES AT WORTHMORE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 GUNSTON SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Pantry ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ARC OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Kent Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Community Mediation Upper Shore Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH HILL THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET HISTORIC CHESTERTOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds United Workers Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds KENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗

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 IncMD46.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 54 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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