· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Bach Choir of Bethlehem | $28,000 |
| PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE | $21,600 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $16,200 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $14,000 |
| CORAL REEF ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| SOLAR ONE | $4,000 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER | $3,000 |
| PLYMOUTH HARBOR FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe of | $3,000 |
| ASOLO THEATRE | $3,000 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| OREGON WILD | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +16% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- PMPaper Mill Playhouse5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +258%
- TCTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE5× · 2021–2025 · $69k · revenue +42%
- TPTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +69%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- WHWHITE HOUSE FELLOWS FOUNDATION AND ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -36%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
The mission of walnut street theatre company is to sustain the tradition of professional theatre and contribute to its future viability and vitality.it does so through:- the production and presentation of professional theatre;- the…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cec Stuyvesant Cove Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marymount Manhattan College. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 68 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.
- Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds CEC STUYVESANT COVE INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds A Noise Within ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE FELLOWS FOUNDATION AND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY ↗
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: 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
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 Fairbairn Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Innocence Project of Florida Inc — 30% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% of income from government
- Reeves - Reed Arboretum — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
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.