· Private foundation
Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of BROOKS AND JOAN FORTUNE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $264k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $366k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $95,000 |
| THE NAPLES PLAYERS INC | $50,000 |
| DAVIDS TABLE INC | $40,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISM | $40,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| CROWN HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC | $26,000 |
| LITERATIONS | $25,000 |
| THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| JOHN KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL | $22,500 |
| FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL CERT ASSOCIATION INC | $15,000 |
| THE DEPOT THEATER | $15,000 |
| JL MANN HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MOFFITT CANCER CENTER | $14,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA9× · 2017–2025 · $771k · revenue +561%- TNTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $220k · revenue +63%
- WTWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $197k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $362k
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue +28%
- CPConner Prairie Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Magic garden children's center was founded on the principle that children learn best by engaging in a diverse curriculum of hands-on activities. in our warm and nurturing environment, children find friendship and support as they broaden…
Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
The cathedral arts project's mission is to empower every child's creative spirit, elevate arts educators in their field and advocate for access in arts education.
See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Pup Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
146 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 146 of the 215 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAPLES PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Conner Prairie Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR EVERY STUDENT INC ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEPOT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds Conner Prairie Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND PIANO SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVIDS TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS ↗
- Who funds Denver Urban Debate League ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KORESHAN STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds STARABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The League Club Inc · Scsymmes Foundation · Carol B Phelon Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Ayres Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Charles R Wood Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc — 68% of income from government
- Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Pepin Academies Inc — 2% of income from government
- Grand Piano Series Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- David Lawrence Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Chill Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.