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The Farbolin Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Farbolin Family Charitable Trust

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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$353kInternational$80kEducation$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHuman Services$20kEnvironment$15kReligion$10kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$50,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
PROJECT HOPE$10,000
ONE STAR FOUNDATION$5,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$5,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
MISSION 22$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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%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

NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of The Farbolin Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Farbolin Family Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.0% directed abroad (not shown)
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$453k · 11 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$453k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+8%

Still filing today

82%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth 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

  • FF
    Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue ×42 · 71% of their budget
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +83%
  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICA'S CHARITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
7
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
8
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
10
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

24 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. 24 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
10/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc: $255,000 · HealthFoundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc+2 more: $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $75,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPI…AMERICA'S CHARITIES: $10,000 · OtherAMERICA'S CHARITIESMONASTERY OF THE HOLY GHOST INC: $10,000 · OtherMONASTERY OF THE HOLY GHOST INCFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSETHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDA…ELDERHEART INC: $7,500 · Other+8 more: $35,089 · Other+8 moreGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING …PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE …PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $15,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHI…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS…CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $5,000 · InternationalCHILDFUND INT…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $2,500 · EnvironmentBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Animals
Health$265,000Other$167,589International$65,000Education$25,000Human Services$15,000Environment$12,500Animals$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFoundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc: $255,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S CHARITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHEART INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Farbolin Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Farbolin Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 29 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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