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The Safadi Family Foundation at a glance

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The Safadi 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.

$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$91kFood & Nutrition$9kEducation$9kReligion$8kEmployment$7kHuman Services$2k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$718k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$6,000
UNHCR$6,000
US FUND FOR UNICEF$6,000
SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE-USA$3,360
PIVOTAL$3,000
RAFT$3,000
CHILDREN INCORPORATED$2,880
CITY TEAM$2,218
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 9 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$125k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-11%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalFood & NutritionReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +63%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +46%
  • CI
    CHILDREN INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -11%
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
Feeding Hungry Children International

Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.

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2
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
3
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
4
Feed the Children Inc

We are a global movement working to end child hunger in the u.s. and around the world. together with communities, we provide food, essentials, and opportunities so every child can survive and thrive.

International
5
Save the Children Federation Inc

Save the children is an international nonprofit children's relief and development organization. our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

International
6
Street Child Us

Street Child's vision is a world in which all children are safe, in school and learning. We believe that education is not only a fundamental human right but the surest pathway out of poverty, and that schools should be a site of safety as…

International
7
Aid for Starving Children

Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.

International
8
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
9
Unicef Usa Impact Fund for Children Inc

The unicef usa impact fund for children exists to develop and implement financial solutions to ensure every child is healthy, educated, protected, and respected. we believe truly scalable, long-term impact will only be accomplished when we…

Philanthropy
10
International Crisis Aid Inc

Provide aid to people in need worldwide

Human Services
11
Children's Rights Inc

Children's rights is a national advocacy organization that investigates, exposes, and combats violations of the rights of children. through strategic advocacy and civil rights impact litigation, children's rights holds governments…

Civil Rights
12
Forafrika Usa

To provide emergency response, food security, nutrition, water and sanitation, health, education, agricultural and economic development to vulnerable communities in africa in dignified and sustainable ways.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Children Incorporated. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International Rescue Committee INC: $23,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $22,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFUnited States Association for UNHCR: $21,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCRCHILDREN INCORPORATED: $11,520 · InternationalCHILDREN INCORPORATEDSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $13,440 · OtherSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-US…PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $9,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSRAFT INC: $7,000 · OtherRAFT INCSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $9,000 · Food & NutritionCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $8,498 · ReligionFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $2,000 · Human Services
International$78,020Other$29,440Food & Nutrition$9,000Religion$8,498Human Services$2,000

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 budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $13,440 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN INCORPORATED: $11,520 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $8,498 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 Safadi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Safadi Family Foundation. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Safadi Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Safadi 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 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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