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Family Voices

Concord, MA · EIN 85-0430800. Reported 42 grants totalling $1,178,614 to 37 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

37organizations funded
$6,375median reported grant
$1,178,614granted, 2022-2024
38%of grantees funded again the next year
36%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Family Voices, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P87) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 36% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 38% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $6,375. Half of what it reported fell between $6,375 and $15,532; the smallest was $6,375 and the largest $202,839. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
31 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Statewide Parent Advocacy Network IncorporatedNewark, NJ$421,755332024
The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent HealthWashington, DC$154,579222023
Univ of Missouri UmkcKansas City, MO$132,692112022
Washington Chapter-American Academy of PediatricsSeattle, WA$115,133222024
National Institute for Childrens Health Quality IncBoston, MA$105,459222024
Umkc FoundationKansas City, MO$51,371112023
Access for Special Kids Resource Center IncJohnston, IA$6,375112023
Advocates for Justice & Education IncWashington, DC$6,375112023
Arkansas Disability CoalitionBryant, AR$6,375112023
Beyond Vision FoundationElk, WA$6,375112023
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher EducationReno, NV$6,375112023
Commonwealth Healthcare CorporationBowling Green, KY$6,375112023
Encircle FamiliesPhoenix, AZ$6,375112023
Exceptional Childrens Assistance Center IncDavidson, NC$6,375112023
Families Together IncWichita, KS$6,375112023
Family Connection of South Carolina IncColumbia, SC$6,375112023
Family Voices Colorado IncDenver, CO$6,375112023
Family Voices of Alabama IncMobile, AL$6,375112023
Family Voices of North Dakota IncEdgeley, ND$6,375112023
Family Voices of Wisconsin IncMadison, WI$6,375112023
Federation for Children With Special Needs IncBoston, MA$6,375112023
Idaho Parents Unlimited IncBoise, ID$6,375112023
Indian Country Grassroots SupportFarmington, NM$6,375112023
Indiana Family to Family IncFishers, IN$6,375112023
Mississippi Families As Allies IncJackson, MS$6,375112023
Muscogee Creek NationOkmulgee, OK$6,375112023
Oklahoma Family Network IncOklahoma City, OK$6,375112023
P T I NebraskaOmaha, NE$6,375112023
Parents Available to Help IncNorthford, CT$6,375112023
Parents Place of Maryland IncGlen Burnie, MD$6,375112023
Stone Soup GroupAnchorage, AK$6,375112023
Support for Families of Children With DisabilitiesSan Francisco, CA$6,375112023
Tennessee Disability CoalitionNashville, TN$6,375112023
Texas Parent-to-ParentAustin, TX$6,375112023
University of Montana FoundationMissoula, MT$6,375112023
University of Puerto Rico Foundation IncSan Juan, PR$6,375112023
University of WyomingLaramie, WY$6,375112023

4 of 37 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 30 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
11 orgs
Health Care
7 orgs
Education
6 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Civil Rights
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Mental Health
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20223$425,755$132,692
202336$566,309$6,375
20243$186,550$70,057

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

36% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New Jersey
$422K
Missouri
$184K
District of Columbia
$161K
Washington
$122K
Massachusetts
$112K
Oklahoma
$13K
Iowa
$6K
Arkansas
$6K

Down to the city

Newark, NJ
$422K
Kansas City, MO
$184K
Washington, DC
$161K
Seattle, WA
$115K
Boston, MA
$112K
Johnston, IA
$6K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsNetwork for Good6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsEnterprise Holdings Foundation5 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $6,375 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Jersey.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Family Voices's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 561 Virgina Rd Bldg 4 Suite 300, Concord, MA, 01742.

EIN 85-0430800 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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