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Foundation for the Contemporary Family

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.

$27k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Foundation for the Contemporary Family funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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 arriving7$27k57%
FY20239$33k44%
FY20225$21k20%
FY20215$11k60%
FY20206$16k67%
FY20194$12kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$37kHealth$34kEducation$24kHuman Services$10kCrime & Legal$8kPhilanthropy$4kInternational$3kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The My Hero Project Inc$22,00062%
Impact Giving$13,85343%
Hand in Hand Parenting$10,00011%
Laguna Art Museum$10,00010%
Unsilenced Project Inc$7,50022%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$3,00010%
Drexel University$2,94010%
Florida State University$2,5001n/a
Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc$1,00010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe My Hero Project Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetImpact Giving: $13,853 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHand in Hand Parenting: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLaguna Art Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnsilenced Project Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrexel University: $2,940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 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 8.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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About Foundation for the Contemporary Family

How much does Foundation for the Contemporary Family give?
Foundation for the Contemporary Family reported 7 grants totaling $27,235 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Foundation for the Contemporary Family fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Health (28%), Education (20%).
Who are Foundation for the Contemporary Family's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The My Hero Project Inc ($22k), Impact Giving ($14k), Hand in Hand Parenting ($10k).
Does Foundation for the Contemporary Family fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Foundation for the Contemporary Family 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 Foundation for the Contemporary Family?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Foundation for the Contemporary Family based?
Foundation for the Contemporary Family is based in CA.

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 20 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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