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Fairfield 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA FOR HUNT COUNTY | $17,500 |
| HOOKER RANCH EQUINE REFUGE | $17,500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $15,000 |
| Rett Syndrome Research Trust | $15,000 |
| WINNETKA CONGRETATIONAL CHURCH | $11,961 |
| NEW LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHICAGO | $6,500 |
| TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN | $5,000 |
| HOUSING OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR | $5,000 |
| Northeast Illinois Council of BSA | $2,500 |
| RISE INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- HOHOUSING OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP5× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +163%
- RSRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +22%
- CFCASA FOR HUNT COUNTY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- WCWinnetka Congregation Churchone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PTPONY TALES REFUGE AND REHAB INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +343%
- BHBeckys Hope Horse Rescue Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -52%
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.
Hope reins' vision is to inspire true hope and real healing for every child. at our ranch, we pair children and teens experiencing trauma with a rescued horse and mentor to find hope and healing. the free-of-charge individual and group…
Equine Activities under PATH International Building a compassionate community to challenge adversity to grow.
To promote the security of horses through rehabilitation, veterinary care, and education.
To rescue and provide medical treatment for abused and abandoned animals; to rehabilitate rescued animals and find permanent placement in loving adoptive homes; to provide loving lifelong care at our sanctuary for those animals who are not…
The organization was founded to provide shelter and care for mistreated or abandoned horses. they provide shelter, food and veterinary services for these animals until a suitable home can be found. as a secondary service, they provide…
Continue to provide rescues of horses,donkeys, and large dogs
To assist individuals with special needs in meeting their full potential through interaction with horses.
Our Vision: A community where the impossible becomes possible. Our mission: To enrich the lives of people with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges through a relationship with a horse.
Healing with Horseplay is an animal protection and welfare organization that rescues animals, primarily horses, that are abused, neglected or to be sent to slaughter and then rehabilitates them. After training them they will be sold to…
To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused, neglected and slaughter bound horses of all breads and sizes. To provide a safe, loving and rehabilitative home, including all needed medical care, to every incoming animal. Once ready for their…
The American Therapeutic Riding Center improves physically and emotionally challenged people through equine-facilitated therapy.
Heavens ranch rescue is committed to relieving the suffering of equines enduring abuse, neglect or abandonment. we provide rescued horses with a consistent environment and a second chance to find a qualified home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us and the most unlike its peers is Rise International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 HOUSING OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR HUNT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds RISE International ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds PONY TALES REFUGE AND REHAB INC ↗
- Who funds Beckys Hope Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Mane Gait ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Fairfield 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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