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The Little Family 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.

$792k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$913kEducation$838kYouth Development$402kReligion$371kHousing & Shelter$291kHealth$75kPublic Benefit$70kEmployment$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $775,722, the rows itemized in this filing. The $791,722 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $166k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $598k
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rise High Inc$150,000
Nurses Middle College Charter High School Capital Region$140,000
Young Parents United Inc$70,727
Ellis Medicine Foundation$70,563
Nurses Middle College Charter High School Capital Region$60,000
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute$55,802
Rise High Inc$50,798
Mom Starts Here Inc$40,000
Nurses Middle College Charter High School Capital Region$40,000
City Mission of Schenectady$25,540
Guyanese International Charitable Foundation Inc$25,000
Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation$15,000
Boys and Girls Club of Schenectady$10,642
Army Emergency Relief$10,000
Judicial Watch Inc$5,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 13 repeat orgs$942k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$2.3M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+60%

Still filing today

85%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEmploymentHousing & ShelterArts & 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

  • RH
    RISE HIGH INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $471k · revenue +132% · 74% of their budget
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    2× · 2020–2024 · $367k · revenue +13%
  • BC
    BETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $125k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • SI
    SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $261k · revenue +11%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club
    one grant, 2020 · $160k
  • CM
    CITY MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +131% · 64% of their budget
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.

03Its 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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
3
Ceg of the Capital Region

Accelerate economic opportunity in albany/ny's capital region by developing and implementing strategies to attract, expand, and create businesses and jobs, and provide catalytic leadership, working with partners and stakeholders to shape a…

Membership Benefit
4
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education
8
Schenectady County Chapter Nysarc Inc

To provide various services to developmentally disabled individuals in the community.

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9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Community Solutions Inc

Positively impacting the lives of our clients and their communities by providing services that facilitate skill development, enhance responsible citizenship, and increase overall well-being.

Health
11
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
12
Coordinated Care Services Inc

Ccsi's mission is to inspire innovation in practice by providing essental business services in partnership with organizations that improve lives and strengthen communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Service of Schenectady; the most unlike its peers is Dharithree Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 38 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC: $260,902 · OtherSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INCNurses Middle College Charter High School Capital Region: $240,000 · OtherNurses Middle College Charter High Scho…Rise High Inc: $173,000 · OtherRise High IncBoys & Girls Club: $160,108 · OtherBoys & Girls ClubEllis Medicine Foundation: $75,213 · OtherEllis Medicine FoundationRE-IGNITING OUR FAITH FOUNDATION INC: $59,974 · Other+16 more: $182,210 · Other+16 moreYOUNG PARENTS UNITED INC: $915,727 · Human ServicesYOUNG PARENTS UNITED INCMOM STARTS HERE INC: $40,000 · Human Services+2 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesRISE HIGH INC: $470,798 · EducationRISE HIGH INCRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $366,500 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic Institu…+4 more: $40,683 · EducationBETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF: $50,000 · Public BenefitDharithree USA Inc: $10,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EmploymentARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $45,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,151,407Human Services$962,727Education$877,981Housing & Shelter$125,000Public Benefit$65,000Employment$60,000Arts & Culture$45,000

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 budgetYOUNG PARENTS UNITED INC: $915,727 over 3y, 79% of budgetRISE HIGH INC: $470,798 over 4y, 74% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $366,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC: $260,902 over 1y, 10% of budgetBETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOM STARTS HERE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY: $30,540 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $25,642 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCITY MISSION INC: $25,013 over 1y, 64% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $10,170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDharithree USA Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE OF SCHENECTADY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $500 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.

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.

Wright Family Foundat…The Community Foundat…United Way of the Gre…The Schenectady Found…William Gundry Brough…JM McDonald Foundatio…Mvp Health Plan IncGe Aerospace Foundati…The Schenectady Found…The Carlilian Foundat…Gideon Lodge #140 B'N…The Broadview Cares F…
Wright Family Foundation IncNY24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wright Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · The Schenectady Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Schenectady Foundation Inc · The Carlilian Foundation · Gideon Lodge #140 B'Nai B'Rith Housing Foundation Inc · The Broadview Cares Foundation Inc

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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Find your warmest path to The Little Family 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 38 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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