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Fletcher Family Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE | $56,676 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE | $17,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER | $15,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA | $13,000 |
| PAULIST CENTER | $10,000 |
| LIBRARY FDN OF SARASOTA | $10,000 |
| HEALTH EQUITY INTL | $10,000 |
| MARGINAL WAY PRESERVATION FUND | $10,000 |
| RINGLING MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $6,000 |
| REFUGE POINT | $5,000 |
| BRUNSWICK TOPSHAM LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- TMTHE MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +247%
ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +83%- OPOGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +55%
Funded once
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +69%- GFGARDENS FOR HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $50k
SIMMONS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -7%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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.
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…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Conservatory of Music and the most unlike its peers is Ogunquit Memorial Library. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 88 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 MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNCORNERED INC ↗
- Who funds OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds YOUNG VOICES ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds MARGINAL WAY PRESERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARACLETE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OGUNQUIT MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Mattel Children's Foundation · Robert and Iris Fanger Family Foundation · Alchemy Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ibm International 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 Fletcher Family Charitable 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.
- The Maranyundo Initiative Inc — 85% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- Primary Source Inc — 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Boston Dance Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 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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