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.

Idol Family Foundation

Idol Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$695k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% 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

02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $21k
$10k–50k9 grants · $140k
$50k–250k4 grants · $425k
$250k+1 grant · $695k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY	$695,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY	$162,500
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER	$150,000
HARLEM ACADEMY	$62,500
HARLEM ACADEMY	$50,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER	$25,000
ON COURSE FOUNDATION	$25,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY	$25,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER	$15,000
NORTON HEALTHCARE INC	$10,000
THE BASILICA PARISH OF THE	$10,000
WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC	$10,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION	$10,000
RISING STARS INC	$10,000
THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATION FUND INC	$7,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.4M · 23 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.4M

$669k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+10%

Still filing today

57%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $756k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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.

Backed again, and grew

VU
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
3× · 2020–2024 · $720k · revenue +44%
GL
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $345k · revenue +66%
NY
New York University
3× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +45%

Funded once

NY
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (7228)
one grant, 2022 · $250k
NL
NYU Langone Health
one grant, 2020 · $200k
WP
WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC (WEST PAL)
one grant, 2022 · $50k

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.

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Desert Labrador Retriever Rescue 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

27 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. 27 of the 58 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

15/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,529,005Education$1,766,500Food & Nutrition$345,000Health$99,800Philanthropy$48,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Public Benefit$25,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Idol Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Idol Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get 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 · 0–50%

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 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.

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