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Fletcher Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.6MArts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$1.0MFood & Nutrition$415kEducation$408kReligion$260kHousing & Shelter$225kInternational$145kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
$35,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC$100,000
AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH$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
HURRICANE ISLAND FDN$10,000
VIEWPOINT SCHOOL$10,000
STRIVE U$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $130k → 11%THE PEOPLES CONCERN: $5k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $100k → 11%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $100k → 11%HOMEWORTHY: $90k → 11%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $50k → 11%KNOX CO HOMELESSCOALITION: $40k → 11%HOMEWORTHY: $40k → 11%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $20k → 11%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
VA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 23 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
10

Total granted

$8.0M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+31%

Still filing today

65%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TW
    THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +240%
  • LF
    LifeFlight Foundation
    4× · 2019–2022 · $720k · revenue +43%
  • AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH
    6× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +817%

Funded once

  • KC
    KNOX CO HOMELESS COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • WF
    Wayfinder Family Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +62%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

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…

Health
2
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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3
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
4
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

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.

Health
5
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
6
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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7
Brightfocus Foundation

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…

Health
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
9
Mila's Miracle Foundation

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,…

Health
10
University of Southern California

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…

Education
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
12
Lowell Observatory

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…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Perkins School for the Blind; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIDI HIRSCH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $2,962,900 · OtherDIDI HIRSCH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $260,000 · OtherAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH+12 more: $312,100 · Other+12 moreIsland Institute: $985,000 · EducationIsland InstituteTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationTARGET ALS FOUNDATIO…THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC: $140,000 · EducationTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL…PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $80,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR T…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationLifeFlight Foundation: $720,000 · HealthLifeFlight Found…LIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION: $400,000 · HealthLIFE FLIGHT NETW…ALS Network: $50,000 · Health+3 more: $42,000 · HealthTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $1,055,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A …AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $410,000 · Human ServicesAREA INTER…Homeworthy: $170,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthyMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $115,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTG…Wayfinder Family Services: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesDIRECT RELIEF: $145,000 · InternationalThe Marol Academy: $16,000 · InternationalTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,535,000Education$1,455,000Health$1,212,000Arts & Culture$1,055,000Human Services$725,000International$161,000Youth Development$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $1,055,000 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetIsland Institute: $985,000 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $720,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $410,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetLIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHomeworthy: $170,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC: $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetALS Network: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Wayfinder Family Services ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH11.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fletcher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fletcher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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