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Fenwick 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $214k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $412k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH CAROLINA THEATRE | $30,000 |
| ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| TAMMY LYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| SAFE CHILD | $22,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $21,000 |
| ABUNDANCE FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| WEBB SQUARED | $20,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR MEDIATION | $20,000 |
| SIDE BY SIDE | $16,500 |
| METTA CENTER FOR NON VIOLENCE | $16,000 |
| YOUTH FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SANITY | $16,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE BURROW INC | $15,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| NON VIOLENT PEACEFORCE | $15,000 |
| MK GANDHI INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
The Abundance Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $159k · revenue +127%- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +89%
WEBB Squared3× · 2022–2024 · $108k · revenue +279% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- TETHE ELLA BAKER WOMENS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
- UOUNC OF CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2021 · $24k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
Epacenter's mission is to increase opportunities for youth to discover and amplify their talents, realize their potential, and impact the world through art, design, and technology.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Strategy Center and the most unlike its peers is Canticle Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
109 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. 109 of the 154 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 The Abundance Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds WEBB Squared ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TAMMY LYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Nonviolent Peaceforce ↗
- Who funds Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain Inc ↗
- Who funds METTA CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Side By Side ↗
- Who funds Canticle Farm ↗
- Who funds WEAVING EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART ↗
- Who funds Youth for Environmental Sanity ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TO CELEBRATE LIFE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPUP DURHAM ↗
- Who funds MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds ART WORKS DOWNTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · The San Francisco Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · McNabb Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc
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 Fenwick 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 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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