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The Armour Family Foundation at a glance

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The Armour 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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
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 2025.

Health$84kCommunity Improvement$58kYouth Development$51kEducation$25kPhilanthropy$20kArts & Culture$11kCivil Rights$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$30,000
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL$25,000
EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL: $12k → 9%SPARK YOUTH: $10k → 17%READING IS FUNDAMENTAL: $25k → 14%RED CROSS: $5k → 9%V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $7k → 8%EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%THE VALERIE FUND: $10k → 16%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL: $3k → 9%THE CATALOG FOR GIVING: $10k → 17%YMCA: $5k → 9%THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $30k → 8%GILDAS CLUB: $2k → 9%SPARK YOUTH: $1k → 17%VAN WEZEL PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 9%THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $15k → 8%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $8k → 9%DONT EVER GIVE UP INC: $8k → 8%WESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $500 → 9%REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%THE CATALOG FOR GIVING: $10k → 17%REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%THE CATALOG FOR GIVING: $10k → 17%REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 17%THE CATALOG FOR GIVING: $10k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 5 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$176k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
HealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $58k · revenue +28%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $52k · revenue +61%
  • SN
    SPARKYOUTH NYC INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE VALERIE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • VW
    VAN WEZEL PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +70%
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
3
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
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
Vasculitis Foundation

Building upon the collective strength of the vasculitis community, the vasculitis foundation supports, inspires and empowers individuals with vasculitis and their families through a wide range of education, research, clinical, and…

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6
Rochester Regional Health

The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…

Health
7
Gouverneur Hospital

Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.

Health
8
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
9
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
12
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The V Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Reading Is Fundamental 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

11 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. 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE V FOUNDATION: $51,500 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $15,000 · HealthWhite Plains Hospital Medical C…DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $7,500 · HealthDON'T EVER GIVE UP INCREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $58,000 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATIO…SPARK YOUTH: $11,000 · OtherSPARK YOUTHTHE VALERIE FUND: $10,000 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUNDVAN WEZEL PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · OtherVAN WEZEL PERFORMI…YMCA: $5,000 · OtherYMCARED CROSS: $5,000 · OtherRED CROSSGILDAS CLUB: $2,275 · Other+2 more: $830 · OtherSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalSPARKYOUTH NYC I…READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $25,000 · EducationREADING IS…EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $8,000 · Civil Rights
Health$74,000Community Improvement$58,000Other$44,105Crime & Legal$40,000Education$25,000Philanthropy$20,000Civil Rights$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $58,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $51,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $330 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Armour Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Armour Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

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    How do I get to The Armour Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Armour Family 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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