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The Farbman 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.

$391k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$794kPhilanthropy$758kHuman Services$447kCrime & Legal$255kInternational$205kArts & Culture$199kHealth$176kPublic Benefit$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $269k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$50,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL$50,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$40,000
VIOLENCE INTERVENTION$40,000
NORTH STAR FUND$40,000
INTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION$25,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY$25,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$25,000
WOMEN AND JUSTICE PROJECT$25,000
CALLACTIVIT$19,445
YOUTH REPRESENT$10,000
WOMEN'S COMMUNITY JUSTICE ASSOCIATION$10,000
GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY$10,000
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY$7,000
THE BILLY MAC FUND$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $465k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REENTRY ROCKS: $10k → 13%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY: $53k → 16%HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $235k → 16%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 23%REENTRY ROCKS: $3k → 13%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY: $3k → 16%HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $35k → 16%REENTRY ROCKS: $797 → 13%NEW HOPE COMMUNITY: $3k → 16%HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $10k → 16%THE HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $8k → 16%HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $5k → 16%THE NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%WOMEN'S COMMUNITY JUSTICE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%WOMEN'S COMMUNITY JUSTICE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 17%VIOLENCE INTERVENTION: $40k → 17%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

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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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 23 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
46

Total granted

$2.0M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+1%

Still filing today

74%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
Human ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • TH
    THE HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $293k · revenue +387% · 55% of their budget
  • GI
    GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +5%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    3× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $220k
  • Center for Third World Organizinggraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +34%
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -63%

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
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
2
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women and girls in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
3
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
4
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
5
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
6
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
7
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
8
Center for Constitutional Rights

Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…

Civil Rights
9
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
10
UltraViolet Education Fund

Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…

Civil Rights
11
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
12
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and the most unlike its peers is Re-Entry Rocks Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDomestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsYouth Development ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Jewish Community Organizati…Youth Sports ProgramsCancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%4%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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/58
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,507

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

54 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. 54 of the 83 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
25/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIDES FOUNDATION — $360,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $220,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEMOCRACY ALLIANCE — $140,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY ALLIANCETHE WOMEN AND JUSTICE PROJECT — $120,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN AND JUSTICE PROJECTCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $75,000 · OtherYOUTH REPRESENT INC — $70,000 · Other+46 more — $950,193 · Other+46 moreGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $275,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WO…Center for Third World Organizing — $200,000 · InternationalCenter for Third W…GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $150,000 · InternationalGRASSROOTS INTERNA…+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalTHE HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE — $292,500 · Human ServicesTHE HIVE COMM…NEW HOPE COMMUNITY INC — $58,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE COMM…Violence Intervention Program — $40,000 · Human ServicesViolence Inte…TIDES CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $29,749 · Human Services+3 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELL…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $75,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamat…The Billy Mac Fund Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyThe Billy…Solidaire Network Inc — $30,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire…WOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $25,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DON…EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY …GREYSTON FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyA LONG WALK HOME INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom — $46,255 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $75,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE HEAL PROJECT — $35,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $102,500 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC — $7,000 · Education
Other$1,935,193International$630,000Human Services$465,249Philanthropy$305,000Arts & Culture$196,255Environment$170,000Education$134,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE — $292,500 over 5y, 55% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $275,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing — $200,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $102,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH REPRESENT INC — $70,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW HOPE COMMUNITY INC — $58,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc — $55,053 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetA LONG WALK HOME INC — $55,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Billy Mac Fund Inc — $50,000 over 7y, 77% of budgetSOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetREGENERATIVE SPORTSCARE FOUNDATIONINC — $50,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom — $46,255 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetViolence Intervention Program — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $36,595 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HEAL PROJECT — $35,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDAUGHTERS BEYOND INCARCERATION — $29,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREYSTON FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRE-ENTRY ROCKS INC — $13,749 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetGIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…ImpactassetsincNovo FoundationBorealis PhilanthropyNew York Women's Foun…Ms Foundation for Wom…Solidaire Network IncCommon Counsel Founda…NEO Philanthropy IncThe Ford Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC28× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · Novo Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ford 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 Farbman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Farbman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Farbman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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