DFX Intelligence
Family Office Intelligence
A continuously maintained graph of U.S. family offices: identity, team, observed investments, public holdings, relationships and dated signals of change. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such, with the source and the date, on every row. Unknown is printed as unknown.
Coverage
What is on the graph, counted the hard way
Candidates are not coverage. A confirmed office is one whose class rests on the office's own words or an equivalent record, cited. Refreshed Sep 18, 2026; last ingest 9/17/2026, 1:59:56 AM UTC.
Universe
- Family-capital entities on the graph (all but false positives)
- 2,335
- Confirmed SFOs
- 258
- Probable SFOs
- 344
- Confirmed MFOs
- 125
- Family investment companies
- 139
- Outsourced family office providers
- 118
- Candidates (not coverage)
- 849
- False positives removed
- 483
- New entities in the last 7 days
- 1,849
- Private foundations on the graph
- 4,236
Profile depth
- With a website
- 854
- With a hand-verified classification
- 619
- With reported office AUM
- 1
- With any capital-scale evidence (13F, RAUM, foundation)
- 1,460
- With source of wealth or family named
- 718
- With a mandate (stated, observed or inferred)
- 703
- With observed direct investments
- 251
- With 5 or more investments
- 87
- With 20 or more investments
- 17
- With fund or manager relationships
- 27
- With public holdings (13F)
- 637
- With co-investors
- 126
- With sponsor relationships
- 28
- With real estate relationships
- 5
- With Form D vehicles
- 145
- With related foundations
- 855
- With a named investment decision-maker
- 1,126
- With a verified professional email
- 209
- With a verified business phone
- 645
- Top 500 by research priority
- 543
Investment graph
- Investment records
- 1,806
- Private company investments
- 1,501
- Public stakes filed (13D, 13G, Section 16)
- 205
- Portfolio companies
- 1,557
- Fund relationships
- 16
- Manager relationships
- 18
- Co-investment edges
- 1,214
- Sponsor relationships
- 83
- Real estate relationships (an office owns a property)
- 5
- Properties on the graph
- 325
- Owners of record tied to an office or foundation
- 86
- Vehicle edges (Form D)
- 1,240
- Ownership edges (Schedule A)
- 618
- Public holdings (rows)
- 546,477
Tape
- People
- 28,301
- Contact points
- 12,685
- Verified contact points
- 822
- Observations
- 197,751
- Dated events
- 123,107
- Events observed in the last 7 days
- 6
- Sources enabled
- 18
- Cross-DFX links
- 549
- Matches
- 846
Honesty
- Average profile age (days)
- 177
- Profiles stale over 30 days
- 62
- Stale over 90 days
- 676
- Stale over 180 days
- 621
- Weak identity (confidence under 50%)
- 791
- Rights-held observations (not publishable)
- 0
- Failed refreshes, last 7 days
- 33
Depth on two denominators
The left column counts every active entity on the graph, candidates included. The right column counts family-capital offices only (confirmed and probable SFOs, confirmed MFOs, family investment companies and vehicles). Depth is read against the right column; the left one says how much of the graph is still unresolved.
| Fact | Whole graph | Family capital | of family capital |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offices | 2,335 | 882 | |
| With a website | 854 | 363 | 41% |
| With named people | 767 | 87% | |
| With a named investment decision-maker | 1,126 | 674 | 76% |
| With a verified professional contact | 209 | 179 | 20% |
| With a mandate | 703 | 88 | 10% |
| With source of wealth named | 718 | 261 | 30% |
| With capital-scale evidence | 1,460 | 82 | 9% |
| With observed direct investments | 251 | 251 | 28% |
| With fund or manager relationships | 27 | 27 | 3% |
| With co-investors | 126 | 116 | 13% |
| With sponsor relationships | 28 | 28 | 3% |
| With real estate relationships | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| With Form D vehicles | 145 | 38 | 4% |
| With public holdings (13F) | 637 | 64 | 7% |
| With public stakes filed (13D, 13G, Section 16) | 35 | 4% |
Profile completeness
Sixteen dimensions per office, each 0, a half or 1 from facts on the graph, never one opaque number. The Top 500 averages below say which dimensions the research standard still lacks; the queue works high-value, shallow profiles first, on the one most valuable missing fact.
Top 500, average per dimension
- Identity
- 0.62
- Classification
- 0.64
- Wealth origin
- 0.52
- Capital-scale evidence
- 0.25
- People
- 0.66
- Contacts
- 0.30
- Mandate
- 0.35
- Direct investments
- 0.50
- Fund relationships
- 0.07
- Co-investors
- 0.27
- Sponsor relationships
- 0.06
- Real estate
- 0.00
- Public holdings
- 0.29
- Recent events
- 0.37
- Provenance
- 0.92
- Freshness
- 0.92
Quadrants
- unresolved
- 423
- high value shallow
- 316
- medium
- 147
- high value deep
- 72
- stale
- 40
- low value deep
- 2
By value tier
- high value, 388 offices
- 0.36
- medium value, 258 offices
- 0.25
- low value, 354 offices
- 0.15
Most valuable missing fact, high-value offices
- direct investments
- 224
- contacts
- 93
- classification
- 39
- mandate
- 19
- decision maker
- 6
- fund relationships
- 3
- wealth origin
- 2
- sponsor relationships
- 1
- real estate
- 1
Engine yield, last 30 days
Every run writes a receipt: rows read, entities and observations it added, and what its own notes count (investment records, offices found, people, verified contacts, paid lookups). Effort follows this table.
| Source | Runs | Rows read | Entities | Observations | Events | Investment records | Relationships | Verified contacts | Paid lookups | Hours | Failed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sec_form_d | 11 | 353,186 | 3,475 | 28,346 | 2,040 | 0 | 15,488 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 2 |
| irs_990_pf | 40 | 130,514 | 46,178 | 81,784 | 69,902 | 0 | 52,208 | 0 | 0 | 6.9 | 3 |
| sec_form_13f | 15 | 115,615 | 1,243 | 30,440 | 82,599 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.1 | 2 |
| sec_form_adv | 10 | 47,998 | 1,868 | 24,298 | 1,707 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.1 | 2 |
| dfx_isi_graph | 6 | 40,979 | 0 | 888 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0 |
| globenewswire | 29 | 11,330 | 190 | 164 | 59 | 256 | 232 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 2 |
| office_website | 469 | 7,260 | 5,068 | 15,155 | 0 | 2,208 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.9 | 5 |
| dfx_model | 74 | 2,999 | 0 | 3,062 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 6 |
| hunter | 12 | 1,322 | 0 | 645 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 386 | 465 | 4.1 | 1 |
| prnewswire | 33 | 753 | 268 | 302 | 159 | 257 | 234 | 0 | 0 | 13.6 | 3 |
| sec_edgar_fts | 12 | 100 | 892 | 1,305 | 568 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 | 2 |
| sec_edgar_submissions | 3 | 25 | 1,008 | 2,519 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
| dfx_re_graph | 3 | 0 | 263 | 1,355 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 1 |
| dfx_research | 1,479 | 0 | 2,864 | 6,854 | 1,503 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.6 | 4 |
Discovery yield by source
Which source first put each office on the graph, and what the classifier made of it. The mission optimises itself on this table: a source that yields confirmed offices earns more effort than one that yields candidates.
| Source | Candidates | SFO confirmed | SFO probable | MFO | Other family orgs | Still candidates | False positives | New, 7 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| irs_990_pf | 743 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 33 | 596 | 88 | 743 |
| sec_edgar_fts | 535 | 96 | 312 | 32 | 72 | 18 | 5 | 535 |
| sec_form_13f | 435 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 142 | 263 | 435 |
| sec_form_adv | 306 | 0 | 3 | 49 | 88 | 46 | 120 | 306 |
| dfx_research | 127 | 68 | 0 | 10 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 127 |
| prnewswire | 103 | 49 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 103 |
| globenewswire | 68 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 23 | 1 | 68 |
| dfx_model | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 14 |
| office_website | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Source atlas
Every source the product knows about, what it contributes, its rights determination, and whether it is being read. Rights are data: an unknown determination means nothing from that source is published.
| Source | Contributes | Rights | Cadence | Last success |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Apollo.io people enrichment (licensed) Apollo.io · licensed · api apollo.io | Titles, business email and phone for named professionals, with the provider's status. | licensed | 90d | not yet read |
DFX Independent Sponsor Intelligence graph (isi_*) DFX Intelligence · dataset · api no URL | Sponsors, capital providers, vehicles and companies an office is connected to; the bridge is by shared CRD/CIK or a cited relationship, never by a similar name. | attribution | 7d | Sep 12, 2026 |
DFX model output (classification rules, scores, mandates, matches) DFX Intelligence · manual_research · search no URL | Classification with a stated rule; scores with components; matches with reasons and blockers. | attribution | automated | Sep 16, 2026 |
DFX Real Estate Data Factory graph (reg_*) DFX Intelligence · dataset · api no URL | Property, parcel, loan and maturity events for entities an office is shown to own. Ownership links require a documented control relationship, never a surname. | attribution | 30d | Sep 13, 2026 |
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) DFX Intelligence · manual_research · search no URL | The gold set and every hand-verified claim. | attribution | research | Sep 17, 2026 |
DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration · filing · bulk_file dol.gov | An office that sponsors a retirement plan files a 5500: headcount and EIN. Already ingested by the sponsor graph; the bridge reads it from there by EIN. | open | 30d | not yet read |
GlobeNewswire releases that name a family office (discovery and investment records, quoted) Notified GlobeNewswire · press · html globenewswire.com | As PR Newswire: the second wire with a readable search page. | attribution | 1d | Sep 14, 2026 |
Hunter.io email finder and verifier (licensed) Hunter Web Services · licensed · api hunter.io | Business email verification for named professionals. Never guesses labelled verified. Spend approved by Jesse 2026-09-12 for decision-makers at confirmed and probable offices. | licensed | 90d | Sep 16, 2026 |
IRS Form 990-PF private foundation filings (e-file index and Exempt Organizations BMF) Internal Revenue Service · filing · bulk_file irs.gov | Family foundations: the in-care-of name (often the office), assets, city and state from the Business Master File; officers and the investment schedule from 990-PF next. Modeled separately (FAMILY_FOUNDATION_RELATED), never as an investment record. | open | 30d | Sep 14, 2026 |
Public job postings by family offices various · web · html no URL | New offices and new investment teams announce themselves in job posts before anywhere else. | restricted | 7d | not yet read |
News coverage and institutional investment publications various · news · html no URL | Office formations, CIO moves, liquidity events, mandates described in interviews. | restricted | 1d | not yet read |
Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) each office · web · html no URL | Stated mandate, team and titles, portfolio pages, the office's own description of itself. The strongest classification evidence there is. | restricted | 30d | Sep 16, 2026 |
Press releases and deal announcements (wires, firm sites, portfolio company news) various · news · html no URL | Direct investments, co-investors, exits, hires. The investment history is built here. | restricted | 1d | not yet read |
PR Newswire releases that name a family office (discovery and investment records, quoted) Cision PR Newswire · press · html prnewswire.com | Family capital is announced before it is listed: 'X, a Dallas-based family office, acquired Y'. The sentence names the office, the target, the round and the co-investors with a date; a release issued by the office is its own description of itself. | attribution | 1d | Sep 14, 2026 |
Public professional biographies (conference programmes, firm pages, podcasts, interviews) various · web · html no URL | Who runs direct investments, prior employers, and the office's self-description. | restricted | 30d | not yet read |
SEC Schedules 13D and 13G (beneficial ownership over 5%) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · filing · api sec.gov | Material public company ownership by an office or its vehicles, and its changes. SIGNIFICANT_OWNERSHIP_DISCLOSED events. Next: EDGAR full-text search by filer CIK. | open | 1d | not yet read |
SEC EDGAR full-text search (a filing sentence that says what an entity is, quoted with its URL) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · filing · api sec.gov | A 13D, a proxy or a prospectus often describes a private investor in one sentence: 'X is the family office of the Y family', 'X is the sole manager of the Z funds'. That sentence, in the same window as the name, classifies an office with no website; a document that merely contains both phrases does not. | open | 30d | Sep 14, 2026 |
SEC EDGAR entity submissions record (filer profile: forms filed, SIC, entity type, website) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · filing · api sec.gov | What else a 13F filer files, which says what it is: a 10-K filer is a public company, an N-PORT filer a registered fund, and the record sometimes names the filer's own website. Rejects the corporate treasuries and GP entities in the 13F candidate pool without a search. 10 requests/s published limit. | open | 30d | Sep 13, 2026 |
SEC Form 13F data sets (quarterly holdings, all filers) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · filing · bulk_file sec.gov | Every institutional manager over $100M in 13(f) securities, including unregistered SFOs. Filer name, address, CIK, signatory name/title/phone, and the full position table. Quarter-on-quarter diffs are the public markets change tape. Never the whole portfolio. | open | 30d | Sep 12, 2026 |
SEC Form ADV monthly roster (RIA + exempt reporting advisers) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · filing · bulk_file sec.gov | Registered MFOs and the registered minority of SFOs: legal name, CRD, CIK, main office, business phone, website, RAUM, client mix (Item 5.D), private fund counts, employee count. Cannot define the universe: the family office exclusion keeps most SFOs off it. | open | 30d | Sep 13, 2026 |
SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · filing · bulk_file sec.gov | New investment vehicles: issuer, amount sold, fund type, related persons (the office as executive officer or promoter of the vehicle), placement agents. NEW_INVESTMENT_VEHICLE and FORM_D_FILED events; a related person that is a known office links the vehicle. | open | 7d | Sep 12, 2026 |
SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5 (insider transactions) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · filing · bulk_file sec.gov | Founder and family liquidity in public companies: the sale that funds an office. OPERATING_COMPANY_LIQUIDITY_EVENT candidates. | open | 30d | not yet read |