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Idol Family Foundation

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$695,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 19
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Idol Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23
EducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$1.3M44%
FY202319$1.5M32%
FY202218$1.7M50%
FY202019$1.7M100%
FY201917$741kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.8MReligion$1.4MFood & Nutrition$595kInternational$493kHealth$333kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$30kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
KY
VA
AZ
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Villanova University$720,00030%
Georgetown University$695,00010%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$345,00030%
Population Services International$323,00020%
Harlem Academy$255,00032%
New York University$75,00030%
Crossroads Club Inc$64,80026%
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Church$35,0002n/a
The James C Ferrer Educational Fundinc (Formerly Shinnecock Hills Educational )$27,00042%
On Course Foundation USA$25,00012%
Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Idol Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVillanova University: $720,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgetown University: $695,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $345,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPopulation Services International: $323,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Academy: $255,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNew York University: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Club Inc: $64,800 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetThe James C Ferrer Educational Fundinc (Formerly Shinnecock Hills Educational ): $27,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetOn Course Foundation USA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHrj Charities Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetPartnership to End Addiction: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRising Stars Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUnited States Golf Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInner City Scholarship Fund Inc: $12,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Vale School: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJames B Lee Jr Scholarship Fund in Honor of Joseph a McBride: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNorton Healthcare Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Palm Golf Community Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Fire Department Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPga Tour Charities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesert Labrador Retriever Rescue Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMedical Debt Resolution Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ainslie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Idol Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Idol Family Foundation 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.

About Idol Family Foundation

How much does Idol Family Foundation give?
Idol Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $1,280,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Idol Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Religion (13%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
Who are Idol Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Villanova University ($720k), Georgetown University ($695k), God's Love We Deliver Inc ($345k).
Does Idol Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Idol Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Idol Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Ainslie Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Idol Family Foundation based?
Idol Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 58 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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