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The Joseph Family 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.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Health$485kInternational$46kReligion$26kCrime & Legal$19kScience & Tech$11kPublic Benefit$4kHousing & Shelter$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$10,378
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER$64,170
SONDER PROJECT$10,378
OHER FOUNDATION$2,000
CONGREGATION MICAH$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $36k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 68% of The Joseph Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Joseph Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$273k · 3 repeat orgs$328k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$273k
$315k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-25%
+36%

Still filing today

33%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TS
    THE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $246k
  • TI
    TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT
    2× · 2021–2022 · $19k · revenue -25%
  • CM
    CONGREGATION MICAH
    2× · 2021–2024 · $9k

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $224k
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +13%
  • UO
    UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. our vision is a stronger, more inclusive tennessee where people of all…

Civil Rights
2
Friendship Shelter Inc

Friendship shelter helps homeless adults achieve self-sufficiency and become more productive members of the community.

Housing & Shelter
3
Friends of Recovery Ne Ohio

Provide Christ centered recovery homes offering hope, healing, and restoration for individuals recovering from addictive substances.

Crime & Legal
4
The Weldon Project

The Weldon Project (TWP) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of currently or formerly incarcerated drug offenders who were sentenced to prison for nonviolent drug offenses. TWP has adopted a multifaceted approach to…

Crime & Legal
5
S a F E Shelter

We are committed to helping victims of sexual assault and abuse and domestic assault and abuse through advocacy support and education. We provide emergency shelter to domestic assault victims. We Also are committed to educating the public…

6
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
7
Third Way Center Inc

The organization was incorporated to operate five residential treatment facilities which provides care and counseling for adolescents assigned to it by municipal governmental agencies and through private placement.

Health
8
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
9
Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services

Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun

10
Elijah Family Homes

Elijah family homes fosters hope, dignity, and self-sufficiency through stable housing and support services for families seeking recovery.

Housing & Shelter
11
Therapeutic Safe Haven Foundation

Support of residential services for homeless children

Human Services
12
The Inn Between

The inn between is utah's only end of life and medical respite housing soultion for terminally ill and medically compromised adults experiencing homelessness.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faith N Friends. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER — $246,358 · OtherTHE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCERTHE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $224,465 · OtherTHE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC+10 more — $49,625 · Other+10 moreINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $35,754 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT — $18,500 · Crime & LegalLeyden Family Service & Mental Health Center — $10,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC — $500 · HealthTHE SONDER PROJECT INC — $10,378 · InternationalNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterOHER FOUNDATION INC FKA BEAT THE ODDS INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentFaith N Friends — $500 · Animals
Other$520,448Human Services$35,754Crime & Legal$18,500Health$10,500International$10,378Housing & Shelter$3,000Youth Development$2,000Animals$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $35,754 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT — $18,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SONDER PROJECT INC — $10,378 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLeyden Family Service & Mental Health Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHER FOUNDATION INC FKA BEAT THE ODDS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKESHET — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFaith N Friends — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT
  • Who funds THE SONDER PROJECT INC
  • Who funds Leyden Family Service & Mental Health Center
  • Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC
  • Who funds OHER FOUNDATION INC FKA BEAT THE ODDS INC
  • Who funds KESHET
  • Who funds Faith N Friends
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Joseph Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Joseph Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Joseph Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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