California · Nonprofit
Modern Family Institute
Modern Family Institute (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,443 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $0
What Modern Family Institute does
Mission
Research and advocacy for nontraditional families
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We work with artists, writers, filmmakers, and other storytellers to illuminate the many ways that families form and thrive.
$9,000 spent18% of program spendingWe work with a broad coalition of think-tanks and grassroots organizations to advocate for the legal protection & social inclusion of diverse family structures.
$2,250 spent5% of program spendingWe work with urban planners, architects, companies, and innovators to design infrastructure that better supports community-centered care.
$38,094 spent77% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,344.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lillian Lamboy
Executive Director
Board chair
Heath Schechinger
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Modern Family Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Modern Family Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Modern Family Institute.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
75% of Modern Family Institute's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Modern Family Institute
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Modern Family Institute: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Modern Family Institute?
- Modern Family Institute (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,443 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Modern Family Institute have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $81,443 in grants to Modern Family Institute, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Modern Family Institute?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Modern Family Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing