· Private foundation
Graham Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONORS CHOOSEORG | $52,500 |
| EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION SAMFUND | $48,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $40,000 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE | $35,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE GUILD | $32,000 |
| PAWS A PROGRAM OF SHANTI PROJECT | $30,000 |
| BERKELEY SOCIAL WELFARE STUDENT AID FUND | $20,000 |
| HUNTER COLLEGE MOTHER'S DAY FUND | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG7× · 2017–2025 · $331k · revenue +24%
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $268k · revenue +18%
LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE7× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $45k
- EMEXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION THE SAMFUNDone grant, 2021 · $40k
- PPPAWS - PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORTone grant, 2017 · $23k
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.
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.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Serve as a leader, alongside diverse coalitions, in identifying and reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal legal system, and redressing systemic racism, and ensuring that its members and others in the criminal defense bar are fully…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE ↗
- Who funds THE SAMFUND INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND PROMISE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Working Group ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Graham Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graham Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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