· Private foundation
Fletcher Family 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 $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $210,000 |
| FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| THE LIFE FLIGHT FDN | $150,000 |
| DIDI HIRSCH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $150,000 |
| AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH | $100,000 |
| AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH | $100,000 |
| TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| HOMEWORTHY | $90,000 |
| ROCKPORT LIBRARY FDN | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER | $25,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KCRW | $15,000 |
| ALS ASSN GOLDEN WESTCHAPTER | $10,000 |
| STRIVE U | $10,000 |
| HURRICANE ISLAND FDN | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $725k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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; $25k 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
- TWTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +62%
- LFLifeFlight Foundation4× · 2019–2022 · $720k · revenue +43%
AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH6× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +468%
Funded once
- KCKNOX CO HOMELESS COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +28%
- WFWayfinder Family Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +62%
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 mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Perkins School for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. 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 39 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) — 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 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.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds LIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALS Network ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds The Marol Academy ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Fletcher Family 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.
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% 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.