Virginia · Public charity
Friends of Faces
To support ongoing research and education on epilepsy and advance new treatments and care for people living with epilepsy.
- $144k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Friends of Faces’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Sterling Donor Advised Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $140k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $140,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $140,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Friends of Faces funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $5.5M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $1.9M | 67% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $220k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kids Connect Charitable Fund | $7,358,501 | 4 | 85% |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $350,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Epilepsy Study Consortium Inc | $84,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc | $46,690 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North American Sudep Registry Inc | $2,903 | 1 | n/a |
| Saint Barnabas Medical Center | $2,065 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Friends of Faces supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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About Friends of Faces
- How much does Friends of Faces give?
- Friends of Faces reported 1 itemized grants totaling $140,000, out of $143,721 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Friends of Faces fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (95%), Food & Nutrition (4%), Science & Tech (1%).
- Who are Friends of Faces's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kids Connect Charitable Fund ($7.4M), The Broad Institute Inc ($350k), Carnegie Mellon University ($100k).
- Does Friends of Faces fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Friends of Faces based?
- Friends of Faces is based in VA.
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