How much does The Faf Foundation give?

The Faf Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Faf Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (67%), Education (16%), Civil Rights (4%).

Who are The Faf Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rainbow Railroad USA Inc ($20k), Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services ($18k), Heartland Alliance International Inc ($15k).

Does The Faf Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Faf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Faf Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is The Faf Foundation based?

The Faf Foundation is based in IL.

The Faf Foundation

The Faf Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Faf Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$279kEducation$66kCivil Rights$18kFood & Nutrition$17kReligion$13kPhilanthropy$13kCommunity Improvement$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0

02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ARVD FOUNDATION	$5,000
RAICES	$5,000
NOURISHING HOPELAKEVIEW PANTRY	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$131k · 24 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$131k

$279k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+44%

Still filing today

50%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC
4× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +175%
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NOURISHING HOPE
3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +43%
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ONE MILLION DEGREES
2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue +122%

Funded once

ME
MICHAEL E AND JANET S THYEN FUND
one grant, 2021 · $244k
SJ
ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2021 · $10k
SE
ST ELIZABETH SETON CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement

Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy

Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement

The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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Aarp Foundation

Aarp foundation creates and advances effective solutions to reduce poverty for and with older adults.see schedule oaarp foundation (the "foundation") works for and with vulnerable people over 50 to end senior poverty and reduce financial…

Human Services

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rainbow Railroad Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Arvd Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

10/18

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$319,432Civil Rights$33,000Philanthropy$31,050Education$23,000Human Services$7,750Community Improvement$3,450Food & Nutrition$900

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

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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Faf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Faf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get 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

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home