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Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45M
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$45,008,502
Largest grant, FY2022
$45,008,502
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2021 to FY2022
Total assets, FY2022
$1.6B
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Esmee Fairbairn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$45M0%
FY20211$70Mn/a
0% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Other$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2022.

PART V NOT REQUIRED$45,008,502

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About Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

How much does Esmee Fairbairn Foundation give?
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $45,008,502 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
Does Esmee Fairbairn Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Esmee Fairbairn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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