Florida · Private foundation
Friend of the Fatherless Foundation
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.
- $230k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Friend of the Fatherless Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $230k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $255k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $249k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $681k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $2.6M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $1.7M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $328k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $127k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Baptist Childrens Village | $281,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope for the Children International | $114,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Legacy Missions International | $82,496 | 8 | 0% |
| Visible Men Academy Inc | $53,000 | 8 | 1% |
| International Justice Mission | $52,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lionheart Children's Academy | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| James W Hunt Ministries Inc | $29,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Sarasota Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Friend of the Fatherless Foundation with peer funders
About Friend of the Fatherless Foundation
- How much does Friend of the Fatherless Foundation give?
- Friend of the Fatherless Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $229,886 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Friend of the Fatherless Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (72%), International (24%), Education (2%).
- Who are Friend of the Fatherless Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Baptist Childrens Village ($281k), Hope for the Children International ($114k), Family Legacy Missions International ($82k).
- Does Friend of the Fatherless Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friend of the Fatherless Foundation 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 Friend of the Fatherless Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Friend of the Fatherless Foundation based?
- Friend of the Fatherless Foundation is based in FL.
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