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The Andrew and Jami Fireman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$272kHealth$43kReligion$40kInternational$36kEducation$18kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$3kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$3,600
Median grant
3
States reached
$816k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chabad of Potomac Village$25,500
Schwab Charitable Fund$20,000
Jewish Health Organization$3,600
Shalom Learning$1,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Washin$1,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Healthnetwork Foundation: $1k → 17%The Comedycures Foundation: $500 → 7%Most Valuable Kids: $3k → 8%Bender JCC of Greater Washington: $2k → 8%Bender JCC of Greater Washington: $500 → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
MD
DE
DC
FL

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$120k · 9 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$120k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+31%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureSocial SciencePhilanthropyOther

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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2017–2020 · $32k · revenue +53%
  • JG
    JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +37%
  • BJ
    BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israelgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +31%
  • CC
    COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +134%

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
Feldman Family Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Feldman Family Foundation
—
3
Chaim Maleh Foundation
Philanthropy
4
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
5
The Chasdei Shimon Foundation
Religion
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation
Philanthropy
8
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
9
Charles B Israel Foundation
—
10
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
11
J Lieberman Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
University of Judaism Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inspired Nation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%51%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,544

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $170,401 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $97,753 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARI…CHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF MARYLAND INC — $28,000 · OtherCHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF MARY…Colon Cancer Alliance — $20,500 · OtherColon Cancer AlliancePROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C — $13,500 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CAT…Individual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…CHABAD SHUL OF POTOMAC — $7,670 · OtherCHABAD SHUL OF POTOMACJEWISH HEALTH ORGANIZATION INC — $3,600 · OtherJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE — $3,500 · Other+5 more — $6,050 · Other+5 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $32,000 · InternationalFRIENDS O…Central Fund of Israel — $4,000 · InternationalCentral F…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $11,000 · HealthCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $3,000 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthMOST VALUABLE KIDS INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $2,300 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesCOMEDY CURES FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Human ServicesInspired Nation Inc — $3,000 · Arts & CultureJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$171,401Community Improvement$97,753Other$92,820International$36,000Health$16,500Human Services$6,300Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $170,401 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $97,753 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInspired Nation Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOST VALUABLE KIDS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM LEARNING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMEDY CURES FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $250 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Combined Jewish Phila…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Andrew and Jami Fireman Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 24% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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