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Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.0MHealth$231kArts & Culture$190kEnvironment$52kPhilanthropy$46kFood & Nutrition$30kReligion$25kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $405k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUSAN B ANTHONY MUSEUM$150,000
MCLA FOUNDATION$105,000
CLARK ART INSTITUTE$100,000
PINE COBBLE SCHOOL$50,000
IMAGES CINEMA$30,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$10,000
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$10,000
CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSN$10,000
MISS HALLS SCHOOL$10,000
DARROW SCHOOL$10,000
WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST$10,000
REMEDY HALL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$5,000
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%REMEDY HALL: $10k → 12%REMEDY HALL: $10k → 12%REMEDY HALL: $300 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
NH
NY
MA
CT
CA
KY
NC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 32 repeat orgs$491k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
9

Total granted

$3.4M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+98%

Still filing today

72%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DS
    DARROW SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +12%
  • BS
    BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +20%
  • WC
    WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST
    8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • CH
    COBBLE HILL FARM EDUCATION RESCUE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • AI
    APPALSHOP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -23%
  • FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +98%
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.

1
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Western New England University

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…

Education
4
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
5
Dean College

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,…

Education
6
Amherst College Trustees

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…

Education
7
Dickinson College

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

Education
8
Nichols College

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…

Education
9
Wheaton College

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…

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
17/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Dartmouth College: $1,290,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeDARROW SCHOOL: $1,243,845 · EducationDARROW SCHOOLPINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $655,100 · EducationPINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATEDMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC: $598,345 · EducationMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC+8 more: $270,000 · Education+8 moreSUSAN B ANTHONY MUSEUM: $150,000 · OtherSUSAN B ANTHON…MCLA FOUNDATION: $105,000 · OtherMCLA FOUNDATIO…IMAGES CINEMA: $70,000 · OtherIMAGES CINEMAWILLIAMSTOWN THEATER FESTIVAL: $60,000 · OtherWILLIAMSTOWN T…COBBLE HILL FARM EDUCATION RESCUE: $50,000 · OtherCOBBLE HILL FA…Individual grant recipient: $37,000 · OtherIndividual gra…+20 more: $210,500 · Other+20 moreBERKSHIRE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $225,000 · Health+2 more: $5,500 · HealthSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSCHROON LAKE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureAPPALSHOP INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureWILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST: $56,000 · PhilanthropyECOS THE ENVIROMENTAL CLEARINGHOUSE INC: $27,000 · EnvironmentHOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · EnvironmentREMEDY HALL INC: $20,300 · Human Services
Education$4,057,290Other$682,500Health$230,500Arts & Culture$123,000Philanthropy$56,000Environment$36,000Human Services$20,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,290,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDARROW SCHOOL: $1,243,845 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetPINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $655,100 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC: $598,345 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetBERKSHIRE HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $225,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $65,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST: $56,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetECOS THE ENVIROMENTAL CLEARINGHOUSE INC: $27,000 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $23,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREMEDY HALL INC: $20,300 over 3y, 48% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOOSIC RIVER REVIVAL INC: $18,000 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetSECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetROOTS TEEN CENTER INC: $6,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH ADAMS REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAD RIVER PATH ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE DANCE THEATRE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

  • 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 STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds ECOS THE ENVIROMENTAL CLEARINGHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds REMEDY HALL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HOOSIC RIVER REVIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHROON LAKE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOTS TEEN CENTER INC ↗

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fairbanks Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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