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Sidgmore Family Foundation at a glance

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Sidgmore Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$387k
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$703kEducation$569kInternational$257kCommunity Improvement$201kPublic Safety & Disaster$178kHealth$153kArts & Culture$118kHuman Services$109kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k69 grants · $187k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $200k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$20,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DEAVID ADOM$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SIMON WEISENTHAL CENTER$10,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$10,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - JAFINA$10,000
BOUNDLESS$10,000
ARTISTS AGAINST ANTISEMITISM$10,000
ROOM TO READ$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN - UKRAINE$10,000
STAND WITH US$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOMESTRETCH: $3k → 4%SECOND STORY: $2k → 6%COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%HOMESTRETCH: $2k → 4%SECOND STORY: $2k → 6%COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%SECOND STORY: $2k → 6%THE SENIOR CONNECTION MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $3k → 8%SOLUTIONS IN HOMETOWN CONNECTIONS: $2k → 11%SOLUTIONS IN HOMETOWN CONNECTIONS: $1k → 11%THE SENIOR CONNECTION MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $3k → 8%HOMES NOT BORDERS: $1k → 11%HOMES NOT BORDERS: $1k → 11%THE HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $5k → 14%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%THE HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $3k → 14%THE SENIOR CONNECTION MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $3k → 8%THE HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $3k → 14%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $3k → 14%ECHO: $1k → 6%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $3k → 14%ECHO: $1k → 6%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $2k → 14%NOVA SCRIPT CENTRAL: $2k → 6%NOVA SCRIPT CENTRAL: $2k → 6%BETHESDA CARES: $3k → 8%HERO DOGS: $3k → 8%LIFE ASSET: $2k → 14%THE SENIOR CONNECTION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $6k → 8%HERO DOGS: $3k → 8%THE SENIOR CONNECTION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $6k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $1k → 8%HERO DOGS: $3k → 8%AYUDA: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $2k → 8%CASA FOR CHILDREN OF DC: $3k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $2k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $2k → 14%DC AFFORDABLE LAW FIRM: $1k → 14%DC AFFORDABLE LAW FIRM: $1k → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 96 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

96 repeat relationships: 79 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
21

Total granted

$2.5M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+23%

Still filing today

79%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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

  • SL
    SPUR LOCAL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $816k · revenue +15% · 30% of their budget
  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    9× · 2017–2025 · $465k · revenue +37%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • DA
    DOWNTOWN ALBANY RESTORATION PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $34k · revenue +54%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -45%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition
2
Dc Bar Pro Bono Center

The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…

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3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation

The district of columbia bar foundation was established to raise funds for organizations in the district that provide hands-on legal services to residents who are unable to afford legal assistance.

Crime & Legal
5
React Dc Inc

React dc was founded in september 2021 by professional military spouses and veterans with backgrounds in law, intelligence operations, military service, education, and non-profit work. we came together to assist our afghan allies in the…

Human Services
6
Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter
7
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
8
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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9
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
10
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
11
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
12
The Women's Law Center of Md Inc

Our mission is to ensure the physical safety, economic security, and autonomy of women throughout the state. the women's law center of md works towards this goal by providing direct legal representation, information and referral services,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvary Women's Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

100 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. 100 of the 125 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/100
Grantees still filing
63/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPUR LOCAL INC: $816,000 · PhilanthropySPUR LOCAL INC+7 more: $54,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreROOM TO READ: $465,000 · EducationROOM TO READA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $29,000 · Education+7 more: $52,000 · Education+7 moreBUSINESS OWNERS FINANCIALLY HARMED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: $157,620 · OtherBUSINESS OWNERS FINANCIALLY HAR…HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN ALBANY RESTORATION PROGRAM INC: $34,195 · Other+62 more: $463,700 · Other+62 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $60,000 · InternationalFRIENDS O…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $40,000 · InternationalISRAEL EM…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…Save The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 · InternationalSave The …DIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · International+2 more: $7,000 · InternationalALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $58,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $35,500 · HealthINSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER: $13,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · HealthTHE MERCY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $9,000 · HealthThe Tree House Child Advocacy Center of Montgomery County MD Inc: $6,000 · Health+2 more: $7,000 · HealthTHE SENIOR CONNECTION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $11,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesHero Dogs Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $8,000 · Human ServicesABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHomestretch Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesNOVA ScriptsCentral: $4,000 · Human ServicesFAIR CHANCE: $4,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $4,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Services Foundation: $4,000 · Human ServicesBETHESDA CARES INC: $4,000 · Human Services+6 more: $14,000 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS AGAINST ANTISEMITISM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureANNE'S PLACE INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$870,000Education$546,000Other$755,515International$217,000Health$137,500Human Services$107,000Arts & Culture$88,000

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 budgetSPUR LOCAL INC: $816,000 over 7y, 30% of budgetROOM TO READ: $465,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $58,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $35,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN ALBANY RESTORATION PROGRAM INC: $34,195 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENIOR CONNECTION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUITED FOR CHANGE: $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetARTISTS AGAINST ANTISEMITISM: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC&O CANAL TRUST INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJubilee Jumpstart: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE AND A HOME: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOG TAG INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATION HOPE: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHero Dogs Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY DOGS RESCUE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MERCY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDC CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY: $9,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOMPUTER CORE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …United Way of the Nat…Clark-Winchcole Found…John Edward Fowler Me…William S Abell Found…Dimick Foundation Joh…Venable Foundation IncNora Roberts Foundati…The Carl M Freeman Fo…The Community Foundat…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC75.7× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Venable Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia 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 Sidgmore Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sidgmore Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Mobile Medical Care Inc: 17% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
40report 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 125 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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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