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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$37kHealth$34kEducation$24kHuman Services$10kCrime & Legal$8kPhilanthropy$4kInternational$3kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,163
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,500
MY HERO PROJECT$2,000
IMPACT GIVING$1,572
FEED THE HUNGRY$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BT IMPACT GIVING: $1k → 8%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 22%MISCELLANEOUS: $1k → 10%HAND IN HAND PARENTING: $10k → 10%SMC FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%BOTANICAL GARDENS SOCIETY SANTA BAR: $125 → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 17%GLOBAL GIVING: $3k → 14%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%FEED THE HUNGRY: $1k → 13%BT IMPACT GIVING: $1k → 8%MISCELLANEOUS: $517 → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 17%MISCELLANEOUS: $170 → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3k → 17%UNSILENCED PROJECT: $5k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 17%UNSILENCED PROJECT: $3k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $500 → 17%REGENTS OF UCI: $9k → 10%REGENTS OF UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $4k → 10%LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $10k → 10%IMPACT GIVING: $10k → 10%MY HERO PROJECT: $8k → 10%MY HERO PROJECT: $6k → 10%MY HERO PROJECT: $3k → 10%MY HERO PROJECT: $2k → 10%IMPACT GIVING: $2k → 10%MY HERO PROJECT: $2k → 10%MY HERO PROJECT: $2k → 10%IMPACT GIVING: $1k → 10%IMPACT GIVING: $1k → 10%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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 6 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$62k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+4%

Still filing today

50%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TM
    THE MY HERO PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue -3%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15k
  • IG
    IMPACT GIVING
    4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • HI
    HAND IN HAND PARENTING
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF UCI
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
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
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
2
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
3
Impactassetsinc

The mission of this corporation is to be the preeminent partner for impact investing and charitable giving, helping us all achieve our greatest impact.

Philanthropy
4
Digital Promise Global

Digital promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for each learner. we work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale up innovations that empower learners,…

International
5
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
6
Impact Global Health Alliance

Impact global health alliance partners with underserved communities to make measurable and sustainable improvements in their health and wellbeing.

International
7
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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8
Gratitude Global

Working through social entrepreneurs to impact the lives of children globally. the gratitude network seeks out the worlds most dynamic and innovative leaders and organizations impacting the lives of children and youth for competitive…

Philanthropy
9
Ripple Effect Images

Ripple effect images' mission is to raise awareness and funding by harnessing the power of visual storytelling to help scale solutions for women and children globally.

International
10
Help International

The mission of help international is to empower people to fight global poverty through sustainable, life-changing development programs. our unique model allows college-aged volunteers, interns, and young professionals to contribute and…

—
11
Global Exchange

Its goal is to increase global awareness and move the U.S. public to action while building international and domestic partnerships around the world

International
12
The Garrison Institute

The garrison institute's mission is to apply the skills and wisdom cultivated through contemplative practice, together with the insights emerging from science, to today's urgent social and environmental challenges, leveraging…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unsilenced Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. 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

8 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. 8 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $14,826 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREGENTS OF UCI: $9,307 · OtherREGENTS OF UCIIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREGENTS OF UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $3,500 · OtherREGENTS OF UNIV OF CALIFORNIAIndividual grant recipient: $2,510 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · Other+5 more: $3,282 · Other+5 moreTHE MY HERO PROJECT INC: $22,000 · EducationTHE MY HERO PROJECT INCIMPACT GIVING: $13,853 · EducationIMPACT GIVINGHAND IN HAND PARENTING: $10,000 · EducationHAND IN HAND PARENTINGDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $2,940 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA AR…UNSILENCED PROJECT INC: $7,500 · Crime & LegalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · InternationalLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$50,925Education$48,793Arts & Culture$10,000Crime & Legal$7,500International$3,000Philanthropy$1,000

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 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
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 THE MY HERO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT GIVING ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND PARENTING ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UNSILENCED PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY 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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation for the Contemporary Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for the Contemporary Family. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s 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 · 0–15%
    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 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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