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Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MARYLAND HILLEL$10,000
FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH$10,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$10,000
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$7,000
AQUILINO CANCER CENTER$6,000
MILES FOR MIGRAINE$5,000
SHADY GROVE ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
SO WHAT ELSE INC$5,000
CARINGMATTERS$3,500
SHAARE TORAH$3,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MATAN: $15k → 17%COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES: $17k → 8%CARINGMATTERS: $4k → 8%MATAN: $5k → 17%CARINGMATTERS: $4k → 8%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%MATAN: $2k → 17%ROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $534 → 8%CARINGMATTERS: $1k → 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
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

MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
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

  • 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 +3%
  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY KOLLEL
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • FO
    Friends of Cancer Researchgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +51%
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
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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Matan Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
38/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FOUNDA…CARINGMATTERS INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesCARINGMATTERS…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetEAGLEBANK FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMILES FOR MIGRAINE: $13,000 over 8y, 0.1% 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 budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARINGMATTERS INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.3% 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 budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $6,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetB NAI B RITH: $6,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $6,000 over 1y, 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 budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ivymount School Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWERS FOR SALLIE: $3,100 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetTHE CAMP AIRY & CAMP LOUISE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE CARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRIVEN TO CURE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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
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 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 EAGLEBANK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILES FOR MIGRAINE ↗
  • Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds CARINGMATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES ↗
  • Who funds B NAI B RITH ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds DC ABORTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗

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 Gary and Pennie A…Ronald & Joy Paul Fam…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Jewish Federation…Bender Foundation IncGreater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…The Aaron and Cecile …Alan and Amy Meltzer …The Morningstar Phila…The Robert P and Arle…David S Stone Foundat…
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

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 Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis & Helen Fanaroff Char Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: 28% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works: 4% of income from government
  • Community Support Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation Inc: 0% 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, 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.

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 72 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home