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Head Family Charitable Foundation 5507-19-44

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$2.1MInternational$1.2MCivil Rights$652kEnvironment$525kFood & Nutrition$445kAnimals$348kHuman Services$294kArts & Culture$265kOther$0
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $370k
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brigham and Women's Hospital$115,000
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation$95,000
Compassion & Choices$60,000
World Central Kitchen Inc$50,000
Direct Relief International$50,000
Center for Reproductive Rights$49,000
International Anti-Poaching Foundation$45,000
Community Food Bank of New Jersey$40,000
International Rescue Committee$40,000
International Medical Corps$40,000
Doctors Without Borders USA$40,000
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc$40,000
Nurturing Minds Inc$40,000
Population Council Inc$35,000
Overlook Foundation$35,000
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 (FY21–24, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Border Solidarity: $10k → 15%Rethink Priorities: $10k → 10%Spectrum for Living Development Inc: $10k → 7%Rethink Priorities: $10k → 10%Spectrum for Living Development Inc: $5k → 7%Rethink Priorities: $10k → 10%Spectrum for Living Development Inc: $3k → 7%Border Solidarity: $5k → 14%Spectrum for Living Development Inc: $2k → 7%The Summit Area YMCA: $25k → 10%The Summit Area YMCA: $15k → 10%The Connection for Women and Families: $15k → 10%The Summit Area YMCA: $15k → 10%The Summit Area YMCA: $10k → 10%Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts Inc: $10k → 8%Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts Inc: $10k → 8%Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts Inc: $10k → 8%Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts Inc: $10k → 8%Madison Area YMCA: $10k → 4%Madison Area YMCA: $10k → 4%Henry Street Settlement: $25k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $25k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $25k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $15k → 17%Innocence Project Inc: $10k → 17%Innocence Project Inc: $6k → 17%Innocence Project Inc: $5k → 17%The Brigid Alliance: $21k → 17%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
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 71 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

71 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
28

Total granted

$6.1M
$336k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+27%

Still filing today

86%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $380k · revenue +51%
  • CC
    COMPASSION & CHOICES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $290k · revenue +40%
  • OF
    OVERLOOK FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $215k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • PA
    POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -59%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -9%
  • INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -7%
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
9
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
10
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
11
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
12
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dogs and Cats of Antigua-Us Inc. 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

94 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 112 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/94
Grantees still filing
59/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $470,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $380,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA A…St Hubert's Animal Welfare Center: $178,300 · OtherSt Hubert's Animal Welfare CenterMorristown Memorial Health Foundation: $175,000 · OtherMorristown Memorial Health FoundationGuttmacher Institute Inc: $130,000 · OtherNURTURING MINDS INC: $197,500 · OtherNURTURING MINDS INC+47 more: $1,380,000 · Other+47 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $190,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIER…DIRECT RELIEF: $190,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFInternational Rescue Committee INC: $185,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue C…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $153,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN …INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $135,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED …THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $130,000 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL…INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $130,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL …GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $100,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN …WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $47,000 · International+3 more: $69,500 · InternationalOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $215,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FO…RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC: $190,000 · HealthRIVERSIDE C…The Fistula Foundation: $130,000 · HealthThe Fistula…PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $45,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 · HealthSummit Volunteer First Aid Squad Inc: $25,000 · Health+4 more: $41,000 · Health+4 moreCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $290,000 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $174,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER…COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $130,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE …FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $23,400 · Civil Rights+1 more: $15,000 · Civil RightsAKASHINGA INC: $170,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $55,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $30,000 · AnimalsBROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION: $26,000 · AnimalsANIMAL HAVEN INC: $23,300 · Animals+10 more: $66,000 · AnimalsCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $140,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $103,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $32,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $17,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $90,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $65,000 · Human ServicesFURNISHING HOPE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesRethink Priorities: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ: $20,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM FOR LIVING DEVELOPMENT INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesBORDER SOLIDARITY: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human Services
Other$2,910,800International$1,329,500Health$681,000Civil Rights$632,400Animals$370,300Food & Nutrition$352,000Human Services$344,000

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 ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $380,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $290,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $197,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC: $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $185,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $174,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAKASHINGA INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $153,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $135,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $130,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $103,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Montessori School: $65,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $64,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFROM THE TOP INC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER GREEN INC: $49,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFURNISHING HOPE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRethink Priorities: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION: $26,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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.

Investors Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…The Summit FoundationCommunity Foundation …Ej Grassmann TrustAmerican Gift FundBristol-Myers Squibb …George M and Pamela S…Citizens Philanthropi…American Express Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Investors Foundation IncNJ22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Summit Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ej Grassmann Trust · American Gift Fund · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · George M and Pamela S Humphrey Fund · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Head Family Charitable Foundation 5507-19-44 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Head Family Charitable Foundation 5507-19-44. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Riverside Community Care Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • New Jersey Festival Orchestra: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • From the Top Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Reeves - Reed Arboretum: 1% of income from government
  • Sage Eldercare: 1% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj: 1% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Head Family Charitable Foundation 5507-19-44 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 112 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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