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Fairbanks Family Charitable 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 $10k21 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DARROW SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| PINE COBBLE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $12,000 |
| REMEDY HALL | $10,000 |
| MISS HALLS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SKETCHBOOK THEATER INC | $10,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST | $8,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| BERKSHIRE HEALTH SYSTEMS | $5,000 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| IMAGES CINEMA | $5,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERISTY | $5,000 |
| WILLIAMSTOWN THEATER FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- DSDARROW SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +12%
- BSBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +20%
- TOTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CHCOBBLE HILL FARM EDUCATION RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $50k
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +98%- AIAPPALSHOP INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +7%
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Westminster School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Schroon Lake Arts Council 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 45 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) — 7% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 42 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 Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds DARROW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds ECOS THE ENVIROMENTAL CLEARINGHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOOSIC RIVER REVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SCHROON LAKE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds REMEDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS TEEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAD RIVER PATH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE DANCE THEATRE 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: 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
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 Fairbanks Family Charitable 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.
- Second Street Second Chances Inc — 33% of income from government
- Berkshire Health Systems Inc — 21% of income from government
- Catamount Trail Association — 10% of income from government
- Roots Teen Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Mad River Path Association — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Pine Cobble School Incorporated — 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.