Skip to content
We Are Family Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

We Are Family Foundation

The WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

$285k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$141kHealth$10kArts & Culture$10kPublic Benefit$10kYouth Development$6k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $32,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $285,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $253,150 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.
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NARRATIO INC$12,000
LOGAN STACER$10,000
AMPLIFY PLEDGE$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH: $6k → 8%VOCAL JUSTICE: $13k → 9%UNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $10k → 17%AMPLIFY PLEDGE: $10k → 20%LOGAN STACER: $10k → 15%NARRATIO INC: $12k → 12%COLLIERVILLE COMMUNITY JUSTICE: $15k → 17%EQUITABLE EDUCATION ACCESS: $8k → 3%EMANCIPATED MINDS: $15k → 12%ASIAN AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES: $13k → 7%NOUS FOUNDATION: $15k → 23%Mattie JT Stepanek Foundation: $10k → 8%NOUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 23%NOUS FOUNDATION: $6k → 23%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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
NM
TN
LA

Grants abroad, by region: $218k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $113k to organizations and $105k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$69k · 32% · 5 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: SOCIAL JUSTICE · ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTIC

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$55k · 25% · 3 grants · 2 people

Stated purpose: SOCIAL JUSTICE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$20k · 9% · 2 people

Stated purpose: SOCIAL JUSTICE

East Asia and the Pacific$16k · 7% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCI · SOCIAL JUSTICE

Russia and Neighboring States$15k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCI

South Asia$13k · 6% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCI · ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL JU

South America$10k · 5% · 1 person

Stated purpose: SOCIAL JUSTICE

Central America and the Caribbean$10k · 5% · 1 person

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL JU

Middle East and North Africa$10k · 5% · 1 person

Stated purpose: SOCIAL JUSTICE

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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
Artnoir Inc

ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…

Arts & Culture
2
Art for Resistance Through Change

Raise awareness of social justice

Arts & Culture
3
Vox Populi Foundation
Civil Rights
4
Youth Activism Project

The Youth Activism Project teaches teens movement-building skills to make policy impact at all levels of government. We envision a world in which youth activism is the norm, not the exception. We know that even though many young people are…

Youth Development
5
People of Color Psychedelic Collective Inc

Advancing psychedelic education

Education
6
Foundation for a Just Society
Philanthropy
7
Tao of Tomorrow

Nonprofit empowering leadership, culture

Public Benefit
8
Until Justice Data Partners Inc

At Until Justice Data Partners (UJDP), we believe that data can be a powerful advocacy tool to create and sustain more effective interventions. We assist our partners in incorporating data into their advocacy work through research…

Community Improvement
9
BlackPush Inc

Our organization combats gun violence works to turn out the vote pushes for laws to help previously incarcerated and issues related to social injustice.

Religion
10
Civica Initiatives

Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions

Community Improvement
11
Aapf Action Fund

Action to advance and expand racial justice, gender equality and all human rights.

—
12
Put Ur Play On Foundation

Write, direct, and produce stage productions and events addressing social issues within communities through education, outreach, and advocacy. These issues include but are not limited to: HIV/AIDS awareness, child advocacy, community…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Strategies for Youth; the most unlike its peers is Mattie J T Stepanek Foundation Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMANCIPATED MINDS: $15,000 · OtherEMANCIPATED MINDSIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientASIAN AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES INITIATIVE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATI: $12,500 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES INITIATIVE A NJ NO…NARRATIO INC: $12,000 · OtherNARRATIO INCHEARTLAND ARTS KC INC: $10,000 · OtherHEARTLAND ARTS KC INCAMPLIFY PLEDGE: $10,000 · OtherAMPLIFY PLEDGEEQUITABLE EDUCATION ACCESS: $7,500 · OtherEQUITABLE EDUCATION ACCESSNOUS FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · InternationalNOUS FOUNDATION INCTHE THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Civil RightsTHE THURM…Vocal Justice: $12,500 · EducationUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMATTIE J T STEPANEK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $10,000 · Public BenefitSTRATEGIES FOR YOUTH: $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$82,000International$31,000Civil Rights$15,000Education$12,500Arts & Culture$10,000Health$10,000Public Benefit$10,000Youth Development$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNOUS FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES INITIATIVE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATI: $12,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRATEGIES FOR YOUTH: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Rockefeller Philanthr…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors IncNY12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · 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 We Are Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from We Are Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Strategies for Youth: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on We Are Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home