· Private foundation
Bruce a Fortier Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of Bruce a Fortier Charitable Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Defiance Area Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Bruce a Fortier Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $448k. It is dated, not current.
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, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k8 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDCAT YOUTH 32 ATHLETICS | $225,000 |
| LIFEWISE | $200,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN SCHOOL | $7,238 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| RAVENS CARE | $3,750 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S OF TOLEDO | $2,370 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,068 |
| WOLFPACK WRESTLING CLUB LLC | $1,000 |
| BLACK SWAMP ARTS COUNCIL | $900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +503% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LILIFEWISE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $445k · revenue +503%
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH3× · 2023–2025 · $23k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2024 · $15k
Funded once
- CLCHILDRENS LANTERN INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -27%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Building a stronger community for our children
Social welfare organization
Provide care, housing and training to displaced and disadvantaged children
Collection and distribuion of funds to non-profit agencies in franklin county area
Community fire safety
Collect & distribute funds to approved agencies in monroe county alabama
Welfare and care of animals
Provide intervention and education for vulnerable youthand young adults
To promote business development within lawrence county, illinois.
The purpose of the association shall be to encourage the members of the denville fire dept in the preservation and protection of life and property from and during such fires and emergencies as may occur in the township of denville and…
Provides funding to affiliated non-profit agencies in wythe county and the surrounding area.
To serve the town of ravenswood and surrounding areas for fire and rescue.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 19 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.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bruce a Fortier Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce a Fortier Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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