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Fellows Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| MAINE SEA COAST MISSION | $3,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $3,000 |
| CAPITAL HOSPICE | $3,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S & ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNITED STATES NAVEL ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| WINSOR SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| NAVEL SUBMARINE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| SUBMARINE FORCE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| UNITED STATES NAVY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY19–21, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $9k · revenue +19%
- MSMaine Seacoast Mission3× · 2019–2021 · $9k · revenue +40%
- TNTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +48%
Funded once
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.
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.
Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…
Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…
To serve and support the united states, the naval service, the naval academy, and its alumni.
See schedule othe marine corps scholarship foundation is the nation's oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children. founded in 1962, the marine corps scholarship foundation provides access to education for…
The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…
Education of students
The naval historical foundation (nhf) has served people interested in the history of the u.s. navy's contributions to america's maritime history and heritage since march of 1926. our mission is to preserve and honor the legacy of those who…
The mission of the navy league foundation is to support educational, advocacy, and related programs that benefit the men and women of the us sea services and their families. the foundation is responsible for the management of the navy…
The navy league of the united states is a professional organization whose primary objective is to be a source of information to the general public, provide direct assistance to men and women in the sea services and sponsor scholarships and…
Naef supports the activities of the national academy of engineering (nae). nae operates within the charter and framework of the national academy of sciences (nas) and advises the federal government on matters of science and technology. nae…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Winsor School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Hospice ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVAL SUBMARINE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Fellows 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.
- Capital Hospice — 0% 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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