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Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Fidelity charitable seeks to facilitate, support and increase charitable activities in the following areas; health and human services, children, youth and families; social welfare; education; scientific research; culture, arts, and humanities; religion; civic and community affairs; environment; wildlife and animals; testing for public…
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.
The 89,891 grants below total $14,909,885,371 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,307,491,635 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $397,606,264 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20606 grants · $145M
- $10k–50k44559 grants · $966M
- $50k–250k18280 grants · $1.9B
- $250k+6446 grants · $11.9B
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM | $480,068,133 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR | $346,816,520 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $208,971,735 |
| IMPACTASSETS INC | $203,706,502 |
| THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS | $189,131,405 |
| GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANA | $159,883,562 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $147,537,286 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $122,888,084 |
| DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING | $117,840,716 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $113,780,950 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $101,392,799 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $99,438,439 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $92,803,659 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED | $81,500,828 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMER | $80,052,696 |
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 (FY19–25, $707.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
1774 repeat relationships — 1697 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 10 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117M 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $724M · revenue +64%
Cornell University9× · 2017–2025 · $357M · revenue +59%
University of Chicago9× · 2017–2025 · $308M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- BFBEYGOOD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $40M · revenue -41%
- BFBRIGHT FUTURE FUNDone grant, 2024 · $38M · revenue -100% · 92% of their budget
- TCTHE CONNECTICUT PROJECT INCone grant, 2023 · $30M · revenue -32%
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.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…
The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.
To facilitate harvard university's scientific, literary, and educational activities in washington, dc.
Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accountableus and the most unlike its peers is Start Early. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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 — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
1794 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1794 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: The Bigbird Fund · Viney Wallach Foundation · H&H Charitable Foundation · Harbourton Foundation · J Christopher and Anne N Reyes Foundation · Wodecroft Foundation · Peravid Foundation Agency · The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation · Burnham Family Foundation · Owen D and Jennifer Thomas Family Chari Trust · Popplestone Foundation · Jlrj 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 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Santa Fe College Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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