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The Dj Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Dj 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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$217kHuman Services$6kHousing & Shelter$6kFood & Nutrition$3kCommunity Improvement$3kYouth Development$1kArts & Culture$250
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$326k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $5k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $500 → 10%ZANE'S INC: $250 → 13%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206k · 10 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +134% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$206k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
0%

Still filing today

60%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AI
    ACCESS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +134%
  • GC
    Guadalupe Center Inc
    2× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +145%
  • LH
    LITTLE HERCULES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -30%
  • HL
    HATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -17%
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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
Little Red Foundation % Alisse Thomas
Health
2
Columbus Children's Foundation

Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.

Health
3
Dlc Nurse and Learn Inc

To provide year round, high-quality education, nursing care and therapies in an environment for children of all abilities, with dignity, while giving families the ability to become financially independent and children the opportunity to…

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4
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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5
Dallas Center Inc

To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.

Human Services
6
Alternatives for Children

To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.

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7
Rainbows United Inc

Enhance the lives of children with special needs (ages birth - 21) and their families by bringing together community resources and providing customized service.

Human Services
8
Lailas Gift

Charitable giving through advocacy, support, and celebrations to children with special needs and disabilities.

Health
9
Leading for Kids

The mission of Leading for Kids is to create a society that puts children first and promotes a culture where the health and well-being of all children is the highest priority.

Human Services
10
Little Thinkers Inc

Our mission is to prepare the children of our community for the road ahead. We take a whole-child approach that blends personalized care plans with physical play, social development, and academic readiness.

Human Services
11
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
12
Reach Out and Read Inc

To give young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 2ND and 7 Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Art Sparks. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $150,175 · OtherAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $29,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL+4 more: $13,250 · Other+4 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HO…LITTLE HERCULES FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · HealthLITTLE HERCUL…REPLAY FOR KIDS: $3,000 · HealthREPLAY FOR KI…RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthRAINBOW BABIE…Guadalupe Center Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesZANES INC: $250 · Human ServicesHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyBULLDOG BAGS INC: $3,250 · Food & NutritionTHE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsArt Sparks: $250 · Arts & Culture
Other$192,425Health$28,500Human Services$5,750Philanthropy$5,500Food & Nutrition$3,250Recreation & Sports$1,000Arts & Culture$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 budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS INC: $5,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE HERCULES FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBULLDOG BAGS INC: $3,250 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetREPLAY FOR KIDS: $3,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZANES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Akron Community Found…The Swagelok Foundati…Kaulig FoundationSisler McFawn Foundat…Gpd Group Employees F…The Cleveland Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Akron Community FoundationOH19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Kaulig Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Gpd Group Employees Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’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 →median 0%
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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.

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 17 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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