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Paul & Didi Farmer Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Paul & Didi Farmer Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$106kInternational$50kEducation$18kCrime & Legal$2kCivil Rights$2kReligion$1kAnimals$1kHealth$500
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$106,089
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FARMER FAMILY FUND (DAF)$106,089
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $500 → 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.
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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 5 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +99% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$47k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+99%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
EducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $34k · revenue +120%
  • PW
    PIVOT WORKS INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +127%
  • ZB
    ZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +51%
  • PF
    PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION DEMOCRACY AND HEALTH IN HAITI
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
4
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
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
7
Pan-African Higher Education Initiative

Provide educational services and workshops.

International
8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
Amani Global Works

Amani Global Works ("Amani") was formed to develop and implement a comprehensive, inclusive and sustainable model for the provision of healthcare and related services to underserved rural communities in Africa. Amanis mission is to save…

Health
10
Patient Safety Movement Foundation

Our mission is to disseminate actionable, evidence-based practices, advance their integration by healthcare organizations, and cultivate data transparency by 2030.

Education
11
Global Healing

Global Healing promotes health care reform in areas of the world where modern medical health care is not available. Global Healing aims for sustainable development of healthcare services, rather than short-term or emergency interventions.

International
12
Intelehealth Inc

Intelehealth leverages open-source technology for Governments, NGOs and Hospitals to seamlessly connect 'hard to reach' populations with high quality primary healthcare. Health organizations all over the world have used our technology to…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FARMER FAMILY FUND (DAF): $106,089 · OtherTHE FARMER FAMILY FUND (DAF)PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION DEMOCRACY AND HEALTH IN HAITI: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $6,410 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $34,393 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A …DUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationSEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $500 · EducationLeadership Brainery Inc: $500 · EducationPIVOT WORKS INC: $4,520 · InternationalZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · InternationalST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,060 · Civil RightsCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $1,244 · Animals
Other$122,499Health$34,393Education$11,000International$6,020Human Services$4,500Civil Rights$2,060Animals$1,244

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 budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $34,393 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIVOT WORKS INC: $4,520 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $1,244 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Brainery Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Paul & Didi Farmer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul & Didi Farmer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Paul & Didi Farmer Family Foundation Inc 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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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