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Fagus Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $715k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY BROADBAND AUTHORITY | $1,770,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $518,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $250,000 |
| FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC | $200,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION | $160,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC | $100,000 |
| EARTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $85,370 |
| AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH | $70,000 |
| LITTLE SISTER'S FUND | $50,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK BENEVOLENT FUND | $50,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK CENTER FOR EDUCATION | $28,000 |
| HEADWATERS - THE RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCTION FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| PATH PARTNERSHIPS | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +96% since the first grant, against +91% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- LFLifeFlight Foundation4× · 2019–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +43%
- FFFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +96%
- CMCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +321%
Funded once
- LFLORD FAIRFAX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $200k
- GFGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $115k · revenue +32%
- RCRAPPAHANNOCK COMMUNITIESone grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue -100%
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Frenchman Bay Conservancy protects and cares for our local lands and waters for the benefit of communities and nature.
To conserve for the public benefit natural habitat, scenic beauty, and working land of the Boothbay region of Maine by providing stewardship, public access, and environmental programs.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
The Northern Virginia Conservation Trust saves nearby nature by encouraging and assisting governments and private landowners to preserve and care for natural areas, trails, streams, parks, and historic and cultural resources for the…
The wvlt protects "special places" in wv, which include lands that give wv its distinctive character and exhibit significant conservation values. those values span a range of public benefits, including water quality protection,…
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Partnerships and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 49 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
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.
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- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS THE RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO BE ↗
- Who funds Homestretch Inc ↗
- Who funds AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK BENEVOLENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS FORUM ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER EDUCATION FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PATH PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds SUNY COLLEGE OF ESF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RAPP AT HOME ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Fhi Services · The Jacquemin Family Foundation Inc · The William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · Ohrstrom Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Bertuzzi Family Foundation · Mountain Laurel Foundation
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 Fagus 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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