How much does Fairchild Foundation give?

Fairchild Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $16,121 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Fairchild Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Education (23%), International (8%).

Who are Fairchild Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($10k), The Salvation Army ($8k), The Art Institute of Chicago ($5k).

Does Fairchild Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Fairchild 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 Fairchild Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Red Bird Hollow Foundation, Sunshine Charitable Foundation, Clarks Fork Foundation.

Where is Fairchild Foundation based?

Fairchild Foundation is based in IL.

Fairchild Foundation

Fairchild Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Fairchild 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.

$16k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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$35kEducation$28kInternational$10kHealth$7kArts & Culture$7kPublic Benefit$7kFood & Nutrition$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300

Median grant

States reached

$208k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMHERST COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND	$1,821
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$1,500
SALVATION ARMY	$1,500
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS	$1,500
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO	$550
ED CHOICE	$500
CATO INSTITUTE	$500
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$500
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION - REAGAN RANCH	$500
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION	$500
NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCATION	$500
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$500
UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION	$500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$400
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY	$400

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$116k · 42 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$116k

$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+51%

Still filing today

71%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +98%
TA
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +45%
FH
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +32%

Funded once

LC
LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOISgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +51%
WW
WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC
one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +15%
MS
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $325

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.

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

35/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$73,154Education$15,100Public Benefit$10,600International$10,000Human Services$4,500Health$4,150Recreation & Sports$4,025

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

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.

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.

Red Bird Hollow FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Sunshine Charitable Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home