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Top Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Top 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.

$474k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$1.6MAnimals$746kEducation$256kPhilanthropy$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $334k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$83,760
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$50,000
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION$50,000
AUDUBON SOUTH CAROLINA$50,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$50,000
CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TENNESSEE$25,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER$25,000
CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA$25,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN OHIO$25,000
FRIENDS OF SLEEPING BEAR DUNES$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%wolf conservation center: $35k → 9%Cornell University: $25k → 16%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $100k → 12%CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $25k → 10%Save The Manatee: $75k → 13%FRIENDS OF SLEEPING BEAR DUNES: $20k → 7%AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $84k → 15%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION: $75k → 9%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TENNESSEE: $100k → 4%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $100k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER: $100k → 11%Red Wolf Coalition: $61k → 20%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN OHIO: $100k → 15%Nature Conservancy: $36k → 7%CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $87k → 12%Save The Manatee: $50k → 13%FRIENDS OF SLEEPING BEAR DUNES: $20k → 7%auburn university foundation: $80k → 15%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TENNESSEE: $50k → 4%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $50k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER: $87k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN OHIO: $87k → 15%Chesapeake Foundation: $50k → 6%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $50k → 12%auburn university foundation: $67k → 15%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TENNESSEE: $50k → 4%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $50k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER: $50k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN OHIO: $50k → 15%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $50k → 12%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TENNESSEE: $50k → 4%DUCK UNLIMITED INC: $25k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER: $50k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN OHIO: $50k → 15%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $50k → 12%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TENNESSEE: $25k → 4%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER: $25k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN OHIO: $25k → 15%CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $30k → 12%AUDUBON SOUTH CAROLINA: $100k → 12%AUDUBON SOUTH CAROLINA: $50k → 12%AUDUBON SOUTH CAROLINA: $50k → 12%AUDUBON SOUTH CAROLINA: $50k → 12%AUDUBON SOUTH CAROLINA: $50k → 12%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

WI
MI
NY
OH
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$1.6M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+14%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +15%
  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $231k · revenue +20%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • RW
    RED WOLF COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $61k · revenue -25% · 30% of their budget
  • WC
    WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +33%
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +14%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
3
Ocean Conservancy

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

Environment
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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6
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
7
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
8
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
9
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
10
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
11
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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12
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ducks Unlimited Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $997,093 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TENNESSEE: $275,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN TENNESSEEChesapeake Foundation: $100,000 · OtherChesapeake Foundation+2 more: $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCDucks Unlimited Inc: $225,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited IncFriends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes: $70,000 · EnvironmentFriends of the Sleeping Bear …RED WOLF COALITION: $61,000 · EnvironmentRED WOLF COALITIONCHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $55,000 · EnvironmentCHARLESTON WATERKEEPERINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL C…SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $125,000 · AnimalsSAVE THE MANATE…WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $35,000 · AnimalsWOLF CONSERVATI…AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $231,129 · EducationAUBURN UNI…Cornell University: $25,000 · EducationCornell Un…
Other$1,417,093Environment$711,000Animals$385,000Education$256,129

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $997,093 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $231,129 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFriends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes: $70,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetRED WOLF COALITION: $61,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $55,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $25,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Top Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Top Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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 · 0–25%
    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 15 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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