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Fairbanks-Horix Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$900k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Fairbanks-Horix Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$39k0%
FY20249$40k11%
FY20239$39k11%
FY20228$42k25%
FY20218$34k0%
FY20209$35k33%
FY20198$34k25%
FY20187$30k29%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$84kArts & Culture$65kEmployment$55kEducation$50kFood & Nutrition$36kReligion$25kHousing & Shelter$8kYouth Development$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Fairbanks-Horix Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Century Careers$55,25181%
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Inc$52,50070%
Friends of the Pittsburgh Fisher House Inc$38,00073%
Highland Food Pantry$13,50060%
Fairbanks Family in America Inc$12,33052%
Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc$11,00041%
Mt Lebanon Village$10,031410%
412 Food Rescue Inc$7,50020%
Thaddeus Stevens Foundation$5,00010%
University of Pittsburgh$4,00010%
The Catholic Charities Food Bank of the Southern Tier$3,5002n/a
It's About the Warriors Foundation$1,00010%
Family Reading Partnership$1,00010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fairbanks-Horix Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Century Careers: $55,251 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPennsylvania Trolley Museum Inc: $52,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Pittsburgh Fisher House Inc: $38,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetHighland Food Pantry: $13,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFairbanks Family in America Inc: $12,330 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMt Lebanon Village: $10,031 over 4y, 9.9% of budget412 Food Rescue Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThaddeus Stevens Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIt's About the Warriors Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Reading Partnership: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Fairbanks-Horix Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fairbanks-Horix Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Fairbanks-Horix Foundation

How much does Fairbanks-Horix Foundation give?
Fairbanks-Horix Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $39,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Fairbanks-Horix Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Arts & Culture (20%), Employment (17%).
Who are Fairbanks-Horix Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Century Careers ($55k), Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Inc ($53k), Friends of the Pittsburgh Fisher House Inc ($38k).
Does Fairbanks-Horix Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fairbanks-Horix Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fairbanks-Horix Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Fairbanks-Horix Foundation based?
Fairbanks-Horix Foundation is based in PA.

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 19 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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