· Private foundation
136 Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of 136 Fund’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+3 grants · $60M
Largely a single collection: about 96% of reported assets are Life Insurance Policies Values.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $38,027,659 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $18,650,000 |
| JP MORGAN NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $3,500,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
1 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. 1 of the 3 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 136 Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 136 Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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