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Sifco Foundation at a glance

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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 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, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,654
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$25,654
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOL: $100 → 17%FORGING INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOL: $100 → 17%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $100 → 17%FORGING INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University School; 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 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. 9 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sifco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sifco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 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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