Massachusetts · Private foundation
Fairbanks Family Charitable 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.
- $570k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 31 | $560k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $412k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $632k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $518k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $486k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $625k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $228k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $243k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darrow School | $1,243,845 | 7 | 5% |
| Pine Cobble School Incorporated | $655,100 | 9 | 5% |
| Miss Hall's School Inc | $598,345 | 8 | 2% |
| Berkshire Health Systems Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 49% |
| Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barrington Stage Company Inc | $65,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Williamstown Community Chest | $56,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Trustees of Westminster School Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Lawrence University | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($561k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $570,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (86%), Health (5%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Darrow School ($1.2M), Pine Cobble School Incorporated ($655k), Miss Hall's School Inc ($598k).
- Does Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fairbanks Family Charitable 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 Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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