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Fantasy Fountain Fund Inc

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.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$103kArts & Culture$83kPhilanthropy$30kReligion$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$32k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK$17,990
AMERICAN FRIENDS SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST$14,000
Individual grant recipient$9,750
ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,500
THE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL$5,000
BROOKGREEN GARDENS$5,000
ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE$5,000
LYME ACADEMY OF FINE ART$4,500
NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY$4,000
ZACH GABBARD BRONZE FOUNDRY$3,000
HUDSON VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION$3,000
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.

US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($202k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($25k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ZACH GABBARD BRONZE FOUNDRY: $3k → 8%HUDSON VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION: $3k → 9%ELIZABETH LATELLA: $825 → 9%ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%Sean Kalish: $200 → 17%Timur York: $200 → 20%BROOKGREEN GARDENS: $5k → 13%Litchfield Company Vacation Rental: $5k → 15%LYME ACADEMY OF FINE ART: $5k → 9%INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN UNIV: $7k → 7%Stephen Schaum: $482 → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST: $14k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAKESPEARE TRU: $12k → 9%TAJOURA DAVIS: $250 → 7%ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%Rosa Rojas: $912 → 28%Litchfield Company Vacation Rental: $3k → 15%American Friends Shakespeare Birthp: $13k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAKESPEARE TRU: $11k → 9%Rockland Community Foundation: $12k → 14%NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY: $4k → 17%Rina Oh: $200 → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHAKESPEARE: $12k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAKESPEARE TRU: $10k → 9%ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $5k → 14%AMBER LELLI NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY: $2k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS SHAKESPEARE BIRTH: $12k → 6%ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%KELLY MICCA NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY: $2k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST: $12k → 6%VARVARA MITROFANOVA SCULPTURE SOCIETY: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS SHAKESPEARE BIRTH: $10k → 6%BEATRICE LEWIS: $792 → 17%Columbia University Dept Art Hist A: $7k → 17%Columbia University Dept Art Hist A: $3k → 17%Marjorie Victor: $200 → 13%THE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL: $5k → 17%STUDENT EXCHANGE FEESAIRFARE: $3k → 17%CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE: $500 → 17%STA Travel: $6k → 17%THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK: $18k → 17%THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NY: $7k → 17%ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NY: $2k → 17%Compleat Sculptor: $4k → 17%MODERN ART FOUNDRY: $15k → 13%MODERN ART FOUNDRY: $10k → 13%LAURA SANTIAGO MONTIERO: $825 → 13%Erin Murphy: $912 → 13%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.

Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($25k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
OC$25k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133k · 11 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
80

Total granted

$133k
$74k

Still filing today

0%
1%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAKESPEARE TRU
    3× · 2017–2019 · $33k
  • PA
    PARIS AMERICAN ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2025 · $25k

Funded once

  • AF
    American Friends Shakespeare Birthp
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHAKESPEARE
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue 0% · 100% of their budget
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 101 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
1/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAKESPEARE TRU: $33,200 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAKESPEARE TRUPARIS AMERICAN ACADEMY: $24,924 · OtherPARIS AMERICAN ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $24,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN FRIENDS SHAKESPEARE BIRTH: $22,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SHAKESPEARE BIRTHAMERICAN FRIENDS SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST: $14,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUSTAmerican Friends Shakespeare Birthp: $13,000 · OtherAmerican Friends Shakespeare BirthpAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHAKESPEARE: $12,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHAKESPEAREColumbia University Dept Art Hist A: $10,000 · OtherTHE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NY: $8,812 · OtherLitchfield Company Vacation Rental: $7,667 · Other+84 more: $49,307 · Other+84 moreThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $17,990 · Arts & CultureThe Art Studen…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIEN…LYME ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS: $4,500 · Arts & CultureLYME ACADEMY O…NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SCULP…THE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $37,424 · PhilanthropyTHE ROCKLAND …BROOKGREEN GARDENS: $5,000 · EnvironmentST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education
Other$219,660Arts & Culture$38,490Philanthropy$37,424Environment$5,000Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $37,424 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $17,990 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST INC: $12,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYME ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 THE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Art Students League Of New York Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LYME ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fantasy Fountain Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fantasy Fountain Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fantasy Fountain Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Fantasy Fountain Fund Inc 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.

    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 101 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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