· Private foundation
Feather Foundation 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $261k
- $250k+2 grants · $663k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | $407,364 |
| FUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE | $256,027 |
| GILMAN SCHOOL | $158,254 |
| NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL | $52,429 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $50,162 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $49,335 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER | $48,884 |
| CYLBURN ABORETUM FRIENDS | $48,330 |
| THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL | $24,570 |
| EVERGREEN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER | $9,863 |
| INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE | $9,727 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION (SFAF) | $4,545 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $544k · revenue +124%
- GSGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +111%
The Trustees of Princeton University6× · 2020–2025 · $111k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINSone grant, 2024 · $50k
- PCPRINCETON CHARTER CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +27%
- PCPrinceton Charter Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +136%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
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How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds CYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON CHARTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Princeton Charter Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Linehan Family Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Feather Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feather Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
- The Woodstock Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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