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The 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$872kPhilanthropy$13kArts & Culture$12kEnvironment$12kEmployment$10kHealth$3kInternational$3kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$587k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMNOSYNE INSTITUTE INC$20,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FLATWATER FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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.

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The Conversationalist
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The Climate Cousins Foundation
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Commons Impact Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Global Trimension Impact Foundation
Philanthropy
5
The Change the World Foundation Trust
Philanthropy
6
The Well
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7
Confluence Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Franklin Wells for the World Foundation Inc
International
9
MyWell
Public Benefit
10
Philanthropy International
Philanthropy
11
The Satell Institute
Philanthropy
12
The Why Wouldn't We Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathfinder International; the most unlike its peers is Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELEGATION OF JEWISH AMERICAN STUDENTS (DOJAS): $835,249 · OtherDELEGATION OF JEWISH AMERICAN STUDENTS (DOJAS)+10 more: $51,181 · Other+10 moreMEMNOSYNE INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · EducationCENTRAL TEXAS ALLIED HEALTH INSTITUTE: $10,250 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationRAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP: $5,000 · EnvironmentI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCONNECTHER: $1,000 · PhilanthropyPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $1,105 · InternationalCOULD YOU: $500 · InternationalTHE FLATWATER FOUNDATON: $1,283 · Human ServicesTri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $250 · Community ImprovementStronger Than Stigma Inc: $200 · Health
Other$886,430Education$31,250Environment$5,000Philanthropy$2,500International$1,605Human Services$1,283Community Improvement$250Health$200

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 budgetDELEGATION OF JEWISH AMERICAN STUDENTS (DOJAS): $835,249 over 1y, 92% of budgetMEMNOSYNE INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE WELLS FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS ALLIED HEALTH INSTITUTE: $10,250 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTreeFolks Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FLATWATER FOUNDATON: $1,283 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $1,105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTHER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKATELLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOULD YOU: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStronger Than Stigma Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Austin Community Foun…Better Business BureauRaymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–75%
    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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    How do I get to The Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The 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 22 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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