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The Fifteen Group Foundation at a glance

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The Fifteen Group 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$847kCivil Rights$65kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$14kArts & Culture$10kPhilanthropy$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IRIE FOUNDATION INC$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%LOVE SERVING AUTISM INC: $3k → 11%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIR: $3k → 15%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$922k · 3 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$922k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+90%

Still filing today

33%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2018–2022 · $812k · revenue +33%
  • TP
    THE POSSE FOUNDATION - MIAMI CHAPTER
    4× · 2018–2022 · $75k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER - OFFICE OF GIFT PROCESSING
    2× · 2018–2020 · $35k

Funded once

  • M
    MOUNTAINFILM
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • FS
    FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -30%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -1%
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
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Florida Food Force Inc

To fight hunger through united forces/partnerships; provide nutritional food products that will nurture, sustain and enhance quality of life; facility, contribute and promote programs for hunger relief, strengthening our communities.

Food & Nutrition
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
6
Miami Valley Meals Inc

Miami valley meals' chefs transform bulk donated foods into hearty meals for those experiencing food insecurity. meals are distributed through a network of nonprofits in the miami valley. our professional culinary team efficiently elevates…

Food & Nutrition
7
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
8
University of Miami
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9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Florida International University Research Foundation Inc

The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…

Science & Tech
11
Feed Hawaii

Feed hawaii's mission is to support a sustainable regional food system by providing essential services and resources for local food producers and increasing community access to fresh healthy food.

Food & Nutrition
12
Institute of Food Technologists

As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Irie Foundation 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwestern University: $811,893 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern UniversityTHE POSSE FOUNDATION - MIAMI CHAPTER: $75,000 · OtherTHE POSSE FOUN…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER - OFFICE OF GIFT PROCESSING: $35,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF …LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $10,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES RE…+1 more: $3,500 · OtherMOUNTAINFILM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $5,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesLOVE SERVING AUTISM INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · InternationalIRIE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Education
Recreation & Sports$811,893Other$123,500Arts & Culture$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Health$10,000Human Services$5,000International$5,000Education$3,000

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 budgetNorthwestern University: $811,893 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINFILM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE SERVING AUTISM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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 Fifteen Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fifteen Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Fifteen Group Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fifteen Group 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 15 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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