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The Ida C & Morris Falk Foundation at a glance

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The Ida C & Morris Falk 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.

$219k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$653kEducation$320kInternational$216kArts & Culture$215kHuman Services$110kHealth$105kEnvironment$59kPublic Benefit$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUS AMERICA FOUNDATION (DUKE NUS PARKINSONS FUND)$50,000
THE ASIA FOUNDATION$25,000
ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST$12,500
ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL$12,000
MAYO CLINIC - DR SAVICA RESEARCH$10,000
FRIENDS OF B'NAI ISRAEL CEMETERY$7,500
FRIENDS OF THE ACADEMY OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE$7,500
ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL$6,392
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$5,000
AIR WARRIOR COURAGE FOUNDATION$5,000
OPERATION SECOND CHANCE$5,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL$5,000
HOPE FOR THE WARRIORS$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 8%MAYO CLINIC - DR SAVICA RESEARCH: $20k → 9%NUS AMERICA FOUNDATION (DUKE NUS PARKINSONS FUND): $50k → 7%HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $10k → 10%THE ASIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL: $50k → 11%CAL TECH (DRMASMANIAN): $15k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $25k → 17%SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST (FROM ALLOWANCE ABOVE): $13k → 10%DUKE LAW SCHOOL: $30k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%SPIRIT OF AMERICA: $15k → 7%MOAA SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 9%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CHARITABLE: $12k → 10%MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $240k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 8%MAYO CLINIC - DR SAVICA RESEARCH: $10k → 9%THE ASIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%BLUE STAR FAMILIIES (FROM ALLOWANCE ABOVE): $10k → 11%ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $25k → 17%SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST: $13k → 10%SPIRIT OF AMERICA: $15k → 7%MOAA SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 9%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CHARITABLE: $12k → 10%MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 8%MAYO CLINIC - DR SAVICA RESEARCH: $10k → 9%THE ASIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $25k → 17%SPIRIT OF AMERICA: $10k → 7%MOAA SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $15k → 9%MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45k → 11%ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $25k → 17%RARE INC: $10k → 7%MOAA SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10k → 9%ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $25k → 17%MOAA SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10k → 9%ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $12k → 17%ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $10k → 17%OCEANS CONSERVANCY INC: $15k → 14%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $10k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $10k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $10k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $10k → 17%ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $25k → 17%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

ME
MN
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 33% of The Ida C & Morris Falk Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Ida C & Morris Falk Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.9% 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 26 repeat orgs$269k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
18

Total granted

$1.0M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+56%

Still filing today

58%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
InternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentPublic BenefitEducationArts & 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

  • AC
    ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $195k · revenue +148%
  • SO
    Spirit of America Worldwide
    7× · 2018–2024 · $63k · revenue +409%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • FP
    FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +49%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +41%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
8
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
9
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
10
Naval War College Foundation Inc

Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rumie Initiative Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 53 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $200,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDMOAA SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $82,500 · OtherMOAA SCHOLARSHIP FUNDFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCNUS AMERICA FOUNDATION (DUKE NUS PARKINSONS FUND): $50,000 · OtherNUS AMERICA FOUNDATION (DUKE NUS PARKINSO…MAYO CLINIC - DR SAVICA RESEARCH: $40,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC - DR SAVICA RESEARCHFRIENDS OF THE ACADEMY OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE: $22,500 · Other+29 more: $205,612 · Other+29 moreMaine Community Foundation Inc: $435,000 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation In…+3 more: $30,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $194,628 · InternationalASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL IN…THE ASIA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA FOUNDATIONSpirit of America Worldwide: $62,500 · InternationalSpirit of America Worldwi…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $43,420 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATI…THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $35,000 · InternationalTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD …Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $62,000 · EducationMassachus…FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationFRANCIS P…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationDUKE UNIV…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $12,500 · EducationHILLSDALE…Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $45,000 · Public BenefitOperation Second Chance Inc: $7,500 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF BNAI ISRAEL CEMETERY: $37,500 · ReligionRARE: $17,500 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · Environment
Other$655,612Philanthropy$465,000International$410,548Education$154,500Public Benefit$52,500Religion$37,500Environment$32,500

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 budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $435,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $194,628 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $62,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $62,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $43,420 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BNAI ISRAEL CEMETERY: $37,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRARE: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAir Warrior Courage Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAIR FORCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUMIE INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $3,000 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.

  • Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Spirit of America Worldwide ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BNAI ISRAEL CEMETERY ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RARE ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Air Warrior Courage Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AIR FORCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ida C & Morris Falk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ida C & Morris Falk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–50%
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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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