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The Sidney Ferenc Family Foundation at a glance

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The Sidney Ferenc Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$456kHealth$95kReligion$37kArts & Culture$30kEducation$16kPublic Benefit$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$170k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$100,000
CHABAD OF DOWNTOWN$25,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$18,000
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$1,000
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS$100
02The need
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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 (FY18–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $2k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $600 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $600 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ID
IL
NY
NV
IN
NJ
CA
NE
VA
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DC
GA
FL
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 9% of The Sidney Ferenc Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Sidney Ferenc Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$561k · 15 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

$561k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+35%

Still filing today

87%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +2%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +206%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2022 · $50k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -35%
  • CS
    CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +51%
  • CM
    CASCADE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -2%
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.

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Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
3
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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4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…

Human Services
6
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
7
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
8
Afp Foundation for Philanthropy

The afp foundation shall strive to enhance philanthropy and volunteerism through programs, education, and research.

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9
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
10
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund

The intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and other severe injuries.the intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury,…

Philanthropy
11
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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12
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chabad of Downtown 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

29 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. 29 of the 40 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)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $125,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $80,250 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION+1 more: $300 · InternationalPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCHABAD OF DOWNTOWN INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $25,000 · EnvironmentCASCADE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherCASCADE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherCONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION COALITION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherCASCADE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $2,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,700 · OtherTHE HIGHLAND BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $2,220 · OtherFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $1,500 · Other+14 more: $7,913 · OtherCASCADE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 · HealthNEVADA CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600 · HealthT OFF FOR AUTISM INC: $500 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
International$455,550Philanthropy$51,500Community Improvement$35,000Arts & Culture$30,000Environment$25,000Other$41,333Health$13,700

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 budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $80,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASCADE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASCADE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEVADA CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $2,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HIGHLAND BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA RATON POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetT OFF FOR AUTISM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $58 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Sidney Ferenc Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sidney Ferenc Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Sidney Ferenc Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sidney Ferenc 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 40 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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