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Sifco 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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
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 FY20202025.

Education$57kScience & Tech$3kPhilanthropy$2kHealth$250Youth Development$200
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,654
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$25,654
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $250 → 14%HAWKEN SCHOOL: $1k → 6%WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 15%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $100 → 17%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 23%HAWKEN SCHOOL: $1k → 6%WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 15%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $100 → 17%HAWKEN SCHOOL: $1k → 6%WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 15%URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $26k → 17%URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5k → 17%URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5k → 17%URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5k → 17%URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5k → 17%UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $1k → 17%URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $4k → 17%UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $1k → 17%FORGING INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%FORGING INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%FORGING INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOL: $100 → 17%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $100 → 17%BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOL: $100 → 17%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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$61k · 6 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$61k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-23%
+19%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • UC
    URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +140%
  • HS
    HAWKEN SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +53%
  • WC
    WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +19%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue +25%
  • HB
    HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $100 · revenue +5%

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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
United Nations International School

Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…

Education
3
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
4
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
7
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
8
Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science

Our mission is to ensure every student graduates with college acceptance letters, high tech skills, real work experience, and a plan to turn those opportunities into a successful career.

Education
9
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
10
University Liggett School

Inspiring lives of purpose through education grounded in a spirit of discovery university liggett school is a community committed to excellence in teaching and learning. we nurture curiosity, instill confidence, and foster personal and…

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University School and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $49,654 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLWORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $3,000 · OtherWORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC+1 more — $100 · OtherHAWKEN SCHOOL — $3,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $1,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $200 · Education+2 more — $200 · EducationFORGING INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,700 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $2,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Heart Association Inc — $250 · Health
Other$52,754Education$4,400Community Improvement$2,700Philanthropy$2,000Health$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $49,654 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORGING INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Sifco 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sifco Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sifco 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.

    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 11 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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