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· Public charity

Funeral Service Foundation Inc

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

$455k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$631kMembership Benefit$444kHuman Services$426kArts & Culture$196kEducation$158kCommunity Improvement$143kPhilanthropy$103kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $127,796, the rows itemized in this filing. The $454,606 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $326,810 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
$118,034
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC$118,034
CREMATION ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA$9,762
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 15 repeat orgs$656k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
25

Total granted

$1.6M
$656k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+26%

Still filing today

80%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NF
    NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $683k · revenue +24%
  • 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%
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
A Memory Grows

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

Human Services
2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Children's Grief Center of Nm

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

Human Services
6
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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7
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
8
National Funeral Directors Association of the United States Inc

The national funeral directors association is the world's leading, largest and most trusted association to support funeral professionals. we provide our members with critical information, innovative tools, resources and the professional…

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9
Institute of Reproductive Grief Care

Institute of reproductive grief care, is the global leader in education, research, expertise and support after reproductive loss without religious or political affiliation.

Health
10
National Memorial Ladies

The National Memorial Ladies is a volunteer military funeral service for the purpose of ensuring that no soldier is buried alone. In addition, we supply monuments and flowers for each gravesite. We honorably attend the services for of our…

Public Benefit
11
New Hope Center for Grief Support Inc

Provide education and support services to people of all ages and faiths who are grieving after the death of a loved one.

Health
12
Fox Valley Hands of Hope Inc

We provide compassionate guidance and support for the grieving. Fox Valley Hands of Hope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing expert support for children, families, and adults who are experiencing grief, loss, or…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Hope Grief Support Community; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 40 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $682,651 · 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 · Other+11 more: $201,334 · Other+11 moreTCF Foundation: $155,482 · Human ServicesTCF FoundationNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDRENS GRIEF: $70,160 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ALLIANCE FO…HOPEWELL HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMER: $66,500 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL HOSPICE FOU…CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS BEREAVEMEN…Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition: $46,413 · Human ServicesPediatric Palliative…CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE …ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS: $75,000 · HealthALLIANCE OF HO…TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $60,703 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSIST…PARK NICOLLET HEALTH SERVICES: $44,855 · HealthPARK NICOLLET …HEALGRIEF: $25,000 · HealthHEALGRIEFOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $25,000 · HealthOUR HOUSE GRIE…SAMARITANS INC: $24,950 · HealthSAMARITANS INCGOOD GRIEF INC: $20,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INCGrief Center of Southwest Colorado: $16,000 · HealthGrief Center o…+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$1,347,892Human Services$418,555Health$299,508Education$129,250Community Improvement$62,096Philanthropy$23,370

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 budgetNATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $682,651 over 9y, 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 budgetCREMATION ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $30,811 over 3y, 0.8% 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 budgetOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWILLOW HOUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSAMARITANS INC: $24,950 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $24,100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetSoGaL Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGEORGIA FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Funeral Service Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Funeral Service Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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 40 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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