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The Funger Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Funger Foundation Inc

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.

$361k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$950kHealth$655kScience & Tech$450kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$9,800
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE CONNECTIONS$350,000
NATIONAL FILM PRESERVE LTD$9,800
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL FILM PRESERVE LTD: $10k → 10%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%KENNEDY CENTER: $50k → 14%THE KRAVIS CENTER: $1k → 11%ISRAELI PARASPORT: $50 → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%HOPE CONNECTIONS: $350k → 8%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%KENNEDY CENTER: $50k → 14%THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $5k → 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%HOPE CONNECTIONS: $300k → 8%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%KENNEDY CENTER: $50k → 14%KENNEDY CENTER: $50k → 14%KENNEDY CENTER: $50k → 14%KENNEDY CENTER: $50k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $25k → 14%SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM: $450k → 14%AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM: $450k → 14%SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEU: $9k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $50k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $50k → 14%ADAS ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: $150k → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $50k → 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.
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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 4 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • HC
    HOPE CONNECTIONS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $650k
  • KC
    KENNEDY CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $300k
  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    3× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TG
    The George Washington University
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M · revenue +13%
  • AA
    AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $450k
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2024 · $450k · revenue -2%
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
2
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
8
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
9
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Berggruen Institute
Education
11
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
12
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Performing Arts Society; the most unlike its peers is The National Film Preserve Ltd. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE CONNECTIONS: $650,000 · OtherHOPE CONNECTIONSAIR AND SPACE MUSEUM: $450,000 · OtherAIR AND SPACE MUSEUMKENNEDY CENTER: $300,000 · OtherKENNEDY CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+2 more: $9,050 · OtherThe George Washington University: $1,100,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversitySMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $450,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTI…National Gallery of Art: $150,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of A…WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $15,800 · Arts & CultureAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · Health
Other$1,559,050Education$1,100,000Arts & Culture$640,800Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe George Washington University: $1,100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $450,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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 Funger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Funger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to The Funger Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Funger Foundation Inc 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 14 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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