· Private foundation
Carl Forstmann Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| WALDORF SCHOOL OF LEXINGTON | $8,000 |
| CHESTERTOWN RIVER ARTS | $6,000 |
| STANDEARTH | $6,000 |
| STONE BARNS CENTER | $5,000 |
| LAKOTA WALDORF SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER | $5,000 |
| DIGS WITH DIGNITY | $4,000 |
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES | $4,000 |
| PARKS & TRAILS NEW YORK | $4,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION | $3,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 11 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ATALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +135%
- WCWASHINGTON COLLEGE6× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +32%
- TATRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC6× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TWTHE WALDORF SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +1%
- CHCOMPASS HOSPICE OF QUEENSone grant, 2023 · $5k
- OOONLY ONE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +627%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 79 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.
- Who funds WOLAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NYAKA INC ↗
- Who funds STAND ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri ↗
- Who funds Parks & Trails New York Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds ONLY ONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carl Forstmann Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl Forstmann Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
- Pathways Inc: 45% of income from government
- Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc: 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
- Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Washington College: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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