How much does Fagus Foundation give?

Fagus Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $3,861,370 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Fagus Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (20%), Environment (18%), Health (17%).

Who are Fagus Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: LifeFlight Foundation ($1.5M), Rappahannock County Public Schools ($1.4M), Fauquier Free Clinic Inc ($1.1M).

Does Fagus Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Fagus 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.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fagus Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation, Fhi Services.

Where is Fagus Foundation based?

Fagus Foundation is based in VA.

Fagus Foundation

Fagus Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$3.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.8M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$3.6MEnvironment$3.2MHealth$3.0MEducation$2.7MAnimals$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.4MHuman Services$986kFood & Nutrition$586kOther$0

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k5 grants · $103k
$50k–250k7 grants · $715k
$250k+4 grants · $3.0M

$70,000

Median grant

States reached

$25M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$16M · 26 repeat orgs$890k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +91% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$780k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%

+91%

Still filing today

77%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

LF
LifeFlight Foundation
4× · 2019–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +43%
FF
FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +96%
CM
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +321%

Funded once

LF
LORD FAIRFAX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $200k
GF
GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $115k · revenue +32%
RC
RAPPAHANNOCK COMMUNITIES
one grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue -100%

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.

04Its field

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.

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment

Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation

The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.

Philanthropy

Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment

Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust

Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.

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Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment

Frenchman Bay Conservancy

Frenchman Bay Conservancy protects and cares for our local lands and waters for the benefit of communities and nature.

Environment

Boothbay Region Land Trust

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.

Environment

Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy

Northern Virginia Conservation Trust

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…

Environment

The West Virginia Land Trust Inc

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,…

Environment

Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Partnerships; 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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/38

Grantees still filing

30/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$9,780,949Environment$2,068,740Human Services$1,706,500Education$1,631,000Health$1,535,000International$947,348Food & Nutrition$298,500

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.

Northern Piedmont Community FoundationVA32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fagus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fagus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fagus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fagus Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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