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Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Health$453kReligion$218kHuman Services$86kPhilanthropy$72kEducation$61kCivil Rights$60kInternational$31kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $86k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MATAN$15,400
HOPE CONNECTION FOR CANCER SUPPORT$10,700
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$10,000
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH$10,000
MARYLAND HILLEL$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$10,000
CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$7,000
AQUILINO CANCER CENTER$6,000
SO WHAT ELSE INC$5,000
SHADY GROVE ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
MILES FOR MIGRAINE$5,000
CARINGMATTERS$3,500
SHAARE TORAH$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MATAN: $15k → 17%COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES: $17k → 8%CARINGMATTERS: $4k → 8%CARINGMATTERS: $4k → 8%MATAN: $5k → 17%MATAN: $5k → 17%COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES: $3k → 8%MATAN: $5k → 17%CARINGMATTERS: $3k → 8%MATAN: $5k → 17%COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES: $2k → 8%MATAN: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES: $2k → 8%MATAN: $3k → 17%CARINGMATTERS: $1k → 8%MATAN: $2k → 17%ROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $534 → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $9k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $5k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $4k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $3k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $2k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $1k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $1k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $750 → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $750 → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $1k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $500 → 8%DRIVEN TO CURE: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$949k · 48 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
20

Total granted

$949k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+19%

Still filing today

67%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SH
    SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +13%
  • HC
    HOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +201%
  • CE
    CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -11%
  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY KOLLEL
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • FO
    Friends of Cancer Researchgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +51%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
2
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
5
Institute for Applied Gerontology

The mjhs institute for innovation in palliative care is a not-for-profit organization. the institute is dedicated to promoting access to evidence-based, specialist-level palliative care for patients and families coping with serious or…

Human Services
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
8
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
9
Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses & Missionaries

Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…

Health
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
The Jerusalem Connection
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Matan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Advanceesg. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%62%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,794

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHADY GROVE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $72,000 · OtherSHADY GROVE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH — $68,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF LUBAVITCHANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $54,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEBNAI ISRAEL — $43,500 · OtherBNAI ISRAELBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD — $29,500 · OtherBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEW…AQUILINO CANCER CENTER — $18,000 · OtherCHABAD AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND — $16,500 · Other+32 more — $141,100 · Other+32 moreSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $164,850 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION IN…HOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC — $60,400 · HealthHOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUP…Active Minds Inc — $13,500 · HealthMILES FOR MIGRAINE — $13,000 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC — $12,000 · Health+5 more — $25,000 · Health+5 moreMATAN INC — $43,400 · Human ServicesMATAN INCCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SUP…Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd — $15,000 · Human ServicesGreater Washi…BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $12,680 · Human ServicesBENDER JCC OF…CARINGMATTERS INC — $10,500 · Human ServicesCARINGMATTERS…JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $10,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FOUNDA…DC ABORTION FUND — $5,000 · Human Services+4 more — $5,034 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $46,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWIS…SO WHAT ELSE INC — $23,800 · PhilanthropySO WHAT E…EAGLEBANK FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · PhilanthropyEAGLEBANK…+2 more — $3,050 · PhilanthropyCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $52,000 · EducationThe Ivymount School Inc — $4,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $20,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $4,600 · InternationalINTERFAITH WORKS — $14,900 · Religion
Other$443,100Health$288,750Human Services$126,114Philanthropy$85,850Education$56,500International$34,600Religion$14,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $164,850 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC — $60,400 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $52,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $46,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMATAN INC — $43,400 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD — $29,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSO WHAT ELSE INC — $23,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd — $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS — $14,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc — $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMILES FOR MIGRAINE — $13,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLEBANK FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $12,680 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARINGMATTERS INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $8,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES — $6,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetB NAI B RITH — $6,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDC ABORTION FUND — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $4,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ivymount School Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWERS FOR SALLIE — $3,100 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWashington Interfaith Network — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA CARES INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetImadi Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRIVEN TO CURE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE CARE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPELINK BEHAVIORAL HEALTH — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $534 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetADVANCEESG — $500 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC
  • Who funds CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
  • Who funds MATAN INC
  • Who funds BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC
  • Who funds SO WHAT ELSE INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd
  • Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS
  • Who funds Active Minds Inc
  • Who funds MILES FOR MIGRAINE
  • Who funds EAGLEBANK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON
  • Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds CARINGMATTERS INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES
  • Who funds B NAI B RITH
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC
  • Who funds SHADY GROVE ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Friends of Cancer Research

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable FoundationMD30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · David S Stone Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc100% of income from government
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd28% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc10% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works4% of income from government
  • Community Support Services Inc1% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington1% of income from government
  • The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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