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Fitzpatrick 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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of FITZPATRICK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$12,500
MOUNTAIN HOME FIRE RESCUE$2,000
PARDEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,000
AL COPELAND FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%CENTER FOR DEVELPMENT LEARNING: $2k → 11%PARDEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS: $4k → 12%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $13k → 11%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS: $13k → 23%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING: $2k → 11%PARDEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS: $3k → 12%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $13k → 11%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $13k → 23%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING: $2k → 11%ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS: $2k → 12%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $13k → 23%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING: $2k → 11%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $13k → 23%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $13k → 23%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $12k → 23%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $10k → 23%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $8k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $14k → 12%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $8k → 23%BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $8k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $14k → 12%PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 23%PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $14k → 12%PRESERVATION RESOURCE NEW ORLEANS: $5k → 23%PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $10k → 12%BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $5k → 23%BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $5k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $10k → 12%TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $5k → 23%PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $10k → 12%BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $3k → 23%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $8k → 12%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $8k → 12%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $7k → 12%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $4k → 12%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $3k → 12%FRIENDS OF MILLS RIVER LIBRARY: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$416k · 17 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$416k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+4574%

Still filing today

59%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CC
    Conserving Carolina
    6× · 2019–2024 · $72k · revenue +191%
  • PB
    PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +48%
  • AG
    Asheville GreenWorks
    5× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • CF
    Community Foundation of Henderson
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.

2
Broad River Volunteer Fire & Rescue Dept Inc

To provide fire protection and rescue service in the Broad River district of Buncombe County, NC.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
West Feliciana Historical Society

Preservation of West Feliciana Parish History

4
Huguenot Springs Cemetery Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Henderson County Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

The chamber is a membership organization, a voluntary partnership of business and professional people working together for the benefit of all, presenting one voice to build a healthy economy and improve the quality of life in henderson…

6
Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc

The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.

Arts & Culture
7
Henderson Fire Department Relief Association

To provide retirement benefits to volunteer firefighters.

Membership Benefit
8
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

9
Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept

To sponsor and promote united action by the residents of the Garren Creek Fire District for the protection and preservation of lives and property against injury and destruction by fire or other casualty.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Beauregard Health System Foundation Inc

To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.

Health
11
Fayetteville Volunteer Fire Department

Provide volunteer fire and medical services to the local community

12
Bayou Community Foundation

Bayou Community Foundations strengthens Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish and Grand Isle, LA through philanthropic leadership to create a vibrant and diverse community where all can thrive.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mills River Fire & Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $58,500 · OtherBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGEHISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION — $50,000 · OtherHISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTIONTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL — $38,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOLFRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC — $32,150 · OtherFRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INCBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC — $22,000 · OtherBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INCPRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER — $19,500 · OtherPRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTERAsheville GreenWorks — $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $12,500 · Other+11 more — $41,000 · Other+11 moreConserving Carolina — $72,000 · EnvironmentConserving Caroli…PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPRO BONO PU…MOUNTAIN HOME FIRE & RESCUE DEPT INC — $12,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMOUNTAIN HO…+1 more — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationCommunity Foundation of Henderson — $10,000 · Community ImprovementPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AL COPELAND FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$286,150Environment$72,000Public Safety & Disaster$48,000Education$25,000Community Improvement$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetConserving Carolina — $72,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC — $22,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAsheville GreenWorks — $12,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME FIRE & RESCUE DEPT INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc — $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMILLS RIVER FIRE & RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY HEROES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 Conserving Carolina
  • Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL
  • Who funds BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds Asheville GreenWorks
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME FIRE & RESCUE DEPT INC
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Henderson
  • Who funds PARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL
  • Who funds Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc
  • Who funds MILLS RIVER FIRE & RESCUE INC
  • Who funds THE AL COPELAND FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY HEROES 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.

Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family FoundaFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Freeman-Woollam Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Fitzpatrick 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fitzpatrick Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fitzpatrick Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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