Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Fairbairn Family 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.
- $136k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 38
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Fairbairn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $122k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $112k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $118k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $127k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $74k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bach Choir of Bethlehem | $148,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Paper Mill Playhouse | $120,190 | 5 | 0% |
| The Coral Reef Alliance | $68,690 | 5 | 1% |
| The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc | $19,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Cec Stuyvesant Cove Inc | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Plymouth Harbor Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Florida Studio Theatre Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Asolo Theatre Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| A Noise Within | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fairbairn Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Fairbairn Family Foundation
- How much does Fairbairn Family Foundation give?
- Fairbairn Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $136,356 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 38 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Fairbairn Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Environment (20%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Fairbairn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Bach Choir of Bethlehem ($149k), Paper Mill Playhouse ($120k), The Coral Reef Alliance ($69k).
- Does Fairbairn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fairbairn Family 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 Fairbairn Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Fairbairn Family Foundation based?
- Fairbairn Family Foundation is based in PA.
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