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The Firmenich Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$162k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$113,260
Organizations funded a year
9 to 42
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$85k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Firmenich Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$162k14%
FY20249$314k0%
FY202316$255k31%
FY202215$347k27%
FY202127$398k19%
FY202042$520k81%
FY201929$809k83%
FY201823$548k83%
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.6MInternational$796kEducation$368kFood & Nutrition$308kEnvironment$292kCommunity Improvement$208kHuman Services$106kRecreation & Sports$95kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
MI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
MO
VA
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Firmenich Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $1,106,700 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFashion Institute of Technology Foundation: $163,771 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetConservation International Foundation: $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rainforest Fund Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWexner Center Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $32,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChild Wellness Institute Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShare My Meals Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCreate a Smile: $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetJacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Empowerment Mission Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClimate Central Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTable to Table Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBiobus Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPratt Institute: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Seniorserv Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPink Ribbon Riders: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNext for Autism Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetConserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHomefront Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKid Pack Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCasa for Children of Essex County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLifeTies Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYouth in Need: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVision for Children at Risk Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe James E Marshall Ocd Foundation Inc: $4,700 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,216 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About The Firmenich Charitable Foundation

How much does The Firmenich Charitable Foundation give?
The Firmenich Charitable Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $162,260 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Firmenich Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), International (20%), Education (9%).
Who are The Firmenich Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc ($1.1M), Fashion Institute of Technology Foundation ($164k), Conservation International Foundation ($90k).
Does The Firmenich Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Firmenich Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Firmenich Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.
Where is The Firmenich Charitable Foundation based?
The Firmenich Charitable Foundation is based in NJ.

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 111 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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