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The Jay and Liuba Firman Family Foundation at a glance

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The Jay and Liuba Firman Family 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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$147kFood & Nutrition$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kEnvironment$17kInternational$13kPhilanthropy$12kHuman Services$11kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STARKEY HEARING FOUNDATION$2,500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF LI$2,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,500
ST JUDES CHILDREN HOSPITAL$2,000
DANA FARBER CHILDREN'S FUND$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$2,000
THE ALANSO FOUNDATION$1,250
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$1,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL$1,000
MAKE-A-WISH SUFFOLK COUNTY$1,000
WHY HUNGER$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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $45 → 7%ISLAND HARVEST: $1k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $1k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $1k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%LONG ISLAND CARES: $1k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%LONG ISLAND CARES: $1k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $450 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%LONG ISLAND CARES: $1k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%LONG ISLAND CARES: $1k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $1k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $1k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $500 → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $500 → 7%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $750 → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $500 → 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

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$271k · 46 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
26

Total granted

$271k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+47%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & 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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +46%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +33%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • SF
    SHARSWOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -85%
  • WP
    White Plains Hospital Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +47%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
5
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
6
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.

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7
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
8
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
9
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
10
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
11
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
12
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing 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

45 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. 45 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF LI: $23,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF LIIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDANA FARBER CHILDREN'S FUND: $12,500 · OtherDANA FARBER CHILDREN'S FUNDMAKE-A-WISH SUFFOLK COUNTY: $9,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH SUFFOLK COUNTYPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NYC: $8,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NYCIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL: $6,600 · OtherFEED AMERICA: $6,000 · OtherAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR: $5,900 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $5,000 · Other+43 more: $46,271 · Other+43 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Assoc…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $13,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S R…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $9,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED …NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $4,500 · HealthNATIONAL PSORIASIS F…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $3,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer I…Starkey Hearing Foundation: $2,500 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $17,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $7,250 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SE…Long Island Cares Inc: $7,000 · Human ServicesLong Island Car…ISLAND HARVEST LTD: $6,000 · Human ServicesISLAND HARVEST …WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,950 · Human Services+1 more: $45 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,500 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $500 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc: $4,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $7,500 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $4,000 · Food & NutritionWHYHUNGER INC: $5,900 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,000 · Arts & CultureSHARSWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$145,271Health$52,500Human Services$39,745International$13,000Philanthropy$11,700Food & Nutrition$11,500Arts & Culture$10,900

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $7,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $6,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $5,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Trees: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $3,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARSWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNissequogue River State Park Founda: $150 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIX HILLS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $45 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
  • Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Trees ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Starkey Hearing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC8.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Jay and Liuba Firman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jay and Liuba Firman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Friends of Trees: 100% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 78 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home