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Funeral Service Foundation Inc

Investing in people and programs to strengthen funeral service and lift up grieving communities.

$468k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$631kMembership Benefit$444kHuman Services$426kArts & Culture$196kEducation$158kCommunity Improvement$143kPhilanthropy$103kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $176,114 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $468,352 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $292,238 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
$13,533
Median grant
7
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC$97,456
IOWA FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S GRIEF$14,880
Individual grant recipient$13,533
CREMATION ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA$12,866
NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND MORTICIANS ASSOCIATION$12,184
PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION$5,195
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $419k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $25k → 11%CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER: $50k → 16%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $50k → 17%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $33k → 14%THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS: $76k → 10%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $30k → 17%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $10k → 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S GRIEF: $15k → 17%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $17k → 14%THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS: $42k → 10%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $6k → 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S GRIEF: $5k → 17%HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $17k → 14%THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS: $38k → 10%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
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WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
AR
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $64k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $19k to organizations and $45k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$64k · 100% · 1 grant · 14 people

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT GRANT · SCHOLARSHIPS TO MORTUARY SCIENCE SCHOOL STUDENTS AND FUNERAL SERVICE PROFESSIONALS

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 15 repeat orgs$656k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
23

Total granted

$1.5M
$623k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NF
    NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $565k · revenue +17%
  • TF
    TCF Foundation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $155k · revenue +421% · 42% of their budget
  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • SS
    SOURCE SURGICAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $103k
  • AM
    A MARYLN MOYER JR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue -3%
  • CB
    CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Association of Cemeteries Dba Iccfa

ICCFA is a member based association providing legislative support, educational and networking opportunities to the memorialization industry including cemeteries, funeral homes, crematories and suppliers.

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2
Selected Independent Funeral Homes

Delivering innovative and pertinent resources, solutions and on-going support necessary for enduring excellence to our international network of independently owned death-care providers.

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3
A Memory Grows

Encourage healing and dealing with grief after a tragic death of a love one.

Human Services
4
Community Grief Center

To create a successful center to help all ages grieving a death to find connection and healing

Human Services
5
Ohio Funeral Directors Association

To represent and support our membership by promoting professional standards and excellence in funeral service.

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6
Funeral Service Foundation Inc

Investing in people and programs to strengthen funeral service and lift up grieving communities.

Membership Benefit
7
Nys Funeral Directors Association Inc

To preserve and enhance the high standards of integrity and honor existing in the funeral directing profession so as to better serve the public interest, to further the professional education of the members and to promote uniformity and…

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8
Children's Grief Center of Nm

To provide compassionate and safe support, understanding, healing, and hope to the grieving community.

Human Services
9
Survivor Resources

Survivor Resources is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing immediate and long-term emotional support and practical help to the families and friends of those who have died by homicide, suicide, accident, or overdose.

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10
The Good Death

To ensure no one's fear of death and that death does not cause them to pay to much or make misinformed decisions for their own funeral or the funeral of those they love.

Health
11
Hope for Bereaved Inc

Provide comfort and emotional support to approximately 12,000-15,000 individuals a year suffering bereavement and grief due to the death of a loved one through support groups, presentations, literature, events and discussions.

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12
Texas Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Funeral Directors Association of the United States Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Maryln Moyer Jr Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,528

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $564,617 · OtherNATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INCOCREATIVE — $129,300 · OtherOCREATIVESOURCE SURGICAL INC — $103,000 · OtherSOURCE SURGICAL INCSTIR ADVERTISING & INTEGRATED MESSAGING — $95,423 · OtherSTIR ADVERTISING & INTEGRATED MESSAGINGA MARYLN MOYER JR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $80,000 · OtherA MARYLN MOYER JR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONNational Funeral Directors & Morticians Association Inc — $56,184 · OtherGRAPHICOLOR — $42,109 · Other+10 more — $149,463 · Other+10 moreTCF Foundation — $155,482 · Human ServicesTCF FoundationNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDRENS GRIEF — $70,160 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR …HOPEWELL HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMER — $66,500 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL HOSPICE FOUND…CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT …Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition — $46,413 · Human ServicesPediatric Palliative C…CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE IN…ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS — $75,000 · HealthALLIANCE OF HOP…TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $60,703 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTA…PARK NICOLLET HEALTH SERVICES — $44,855 · HealthPARK NICOLLET H…HEALGRIEF — $25,000 · HealthHEALGRIEFOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER — $25,000 · HealthOUR HOUSE GRIEF…SAMARITANS INC — $24,950 · HealthSAMARITANS INCGOOD GRIEF INC — $20,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INCGrief Center of Southwest Colorado — $16,000 · HealthGrief Center of…+1 more — $8,000 · HealthTHE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FUNERAL SERVICE EXAMINING BOARDS — $55,290 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $39,860 · EducationOklahoma State University Foundation — $24,100 · EducationSoGaL Foundation — $10,000 · EducationSHARE PREGNANCY & INFANT LOSS SUPPORT — $31,596 · Community ImprovementWILLOW HOUSE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,500 · Community ImprovementFoundation for Justice & Peace — $23,370 · Philanthropy
Other$1,220,096Human Services$418,555Health$299,508Education$129,250Community Improvement$62,096Philanthropy$23,370

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $564,617 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTCF Foundation — $155,482 over 3y, 42% of budgetALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS — $75,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDRENS GRIEF — $70,160 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHOPEWELL HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMER — $66,500 over 3y, 67% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $60,703 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNational Funeral Directors & Morticians Association Inc — $56,184 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FUNERAL SERVICE EXAMINING BOARDS — $55,290 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPediatric Palliative Care Coalition — $46,413 over 4y, 26% of budgetPARK NICOLLET HEALTH SERVICES — $44,855 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $39,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE PREGNANCY & INFANT LOSS SUPPORT — $31,596 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetGreater Illinois Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition — $30,591 over 2y, 22% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEALGRIEF — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWILLOW HOUSE — $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAMARITANS INC — $24,950 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation — $24,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREMATION ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA — $21,049 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIOWA FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetALABAMA FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATI — $17,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetGrief Center of Southwest Colorado — $16,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetGEORGIA FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSoGaL Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEW HOPE GRIEF SUPPORT COMMUNITY — $8,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKinderMourn Inc — $6,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New York Life Foundat…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
New York Life FoundationNY18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New York Life Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Funeral Service Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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