Skip to content
The Farbman Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL$50,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$50,000
VIOLENCE INTERVENTION$40,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$40,000
NORTH STAR FUND$40,000
INTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION$25,000
WOMEN AND JUSTICE PROJECT$25,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$25,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY$25,000
CALLACTIVIT$19,445
GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY$10,000
YOUTH REPRESENT$10,000
WOMEN'S COMMUNITY JUSTICE ASSOCIATION$10,000
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY$7,000
THE MARSHALL PROJECT$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +36%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 83 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
25/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) 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 budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetREGENERATIVE SPORTSCARE FOUNDATIONINC: $50,000 over 1y, 71% 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 budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER 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 budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA LITTLE PIECE OF LIGHT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%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
    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
    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

    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Farbman Family’s filings →

    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