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The Farrah Fawcett Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$2.1MPhilanthropy$786kEducation$35kScience & Tech$20k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $273k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAND UP TO CANCER$145,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$127,500
KINDRED BOX INC$20,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$12,000
AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$10,000
KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE$10,000
INTERNATIONAL ANAL NEOPLASIA SOCIETY$10,000
HPV AND ANAL CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
ANTI CANCER LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION$9,500
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$250
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $40k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KINDRED BOX INC: $20k → 14%KINDRED BOX INC: $10k → 14%KINDRED BOX INC: $10k → 14%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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ND
WI
MI
NY
MA
CA
TN
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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 13 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$2.1M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+98%

Still filing today

46%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • AH
    AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +32%
  • AH
    ALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $57k · revenue +156%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    4× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +98%
  • GM
    George Mark Childrens Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +54%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

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Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
8
Imagine a Cure Cancer Treatment
Health
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
10
Gastric Cancer Foundation

The gastric cancer foundation helps patients to face their diagnosis with reliable information, tools to navigate the journey, and a compassionate community that truly understands. the foundation funds research initiatives that contribute…

Health
11
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Altru Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Anticancer Lifestyle 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STAND UP TO CANCER — $997,771 · PhilanthropySTAND UP TO CANCERENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $785,773 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATIONAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $458,750 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $87,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISVANDERBILT - INGRAM CANCER CENTER — $80,000 · OtherVANDERBILT - INGRAM CANCER CENTERKARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE — $69,000 · OtherKARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTEAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 · OtherAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCUS DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM — $65,000 · OtherUS DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEMALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION — $57,000 · OtherALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $45,000 · Other+3 more — $32,397 · OtherDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $50,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $49,000 · HealthTHE HPV AND ANAL CANCER FOUNDATION — $36,000 · HealthGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $10,000 · HealthTHE ANTICANCER LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION — $9,500 · Health+1 more — $250 · HealthKindred Box Inc — $40,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,783,544Other$961,147Health$154,750Human Services$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER — $997,771 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $785,773 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION — $57,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $49,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKindred Box Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE HPV AND ANAL CANCER FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANTICANCER LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER
  • Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Who funds Kindred Box Inc
  • Who funds THE HPV AND ANAL CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund
  • Who funds THE ANTICANCER LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Farrah Fawcett 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to The Farrah Fawcett Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Farrah Fawcett 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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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