· Private foundation
Fargo Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MILFORD | $10,000 |
| FRENCHTOWN METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PREVENTION RESOURCES | $10,000 |
| FRENCHTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,496 |
| PALISADES REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE | $5,000 |
| UPPER TINICUM CEMETERY ASSOC | $5,000 |
| DELAWARE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO | $5,000 |
| RIVER UNION STAGE | $5,000 |
| HOLLAND TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| UNION FIRE CO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRENCHTOWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| UPPER BLACK EDDY FIRE CO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- PRPrevention Resources Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +71%
- DVDELAWARE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +23%
FAMILY PROMISE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +483%
Funded once
- PPPOINT PLEASANCE FIRE COMPANYone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- MBMILFORD BOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Emergency Squad
Volunteer firefighting
Volunteer fire company
Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services
To provide emergency rescue service to residents and travelers in the pattenburg new jersey area.
The protection and preservation of life and property by providing quality fire, rescue and emergency medical services to our community.
To provide emergency care to the residents of somerville, nj.
Volunteer fire company
24 hour rescue services
Fire fighting services
Volunteer Fire Company
Fire & Rescue Company
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palisades Regional Fire Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Special Ops Survivors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 42 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 Prevention Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FRENCHTOWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds POINT PLEASANT FIRE COMPANY #1 ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds PALISADES REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TINICUM CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILFORD HOLLAND RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds One Voice of Hunterdon Inc ↗
- Who funds CAT TALES INC ↗
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.
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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 Fargo Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- One Voice of Hunterdon Inc — 97% of income from government
- Prevention Resources Inc — 63% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
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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