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Fletcher Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $136,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA FUND | $10,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FINGER LAKES BOATING MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $3,000 |
| SKANEATELES SKI CLUB INC | $2,500 |
| SKANEATELES HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| HERMITAGE ARTIST RETREAT | $2,500 |
| PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| ROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +57% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
MANNA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +230%- SLSKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +663%
- SFSKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- CFCHAUTAUQUA FUND - 2021one grant, 2021 · $10k
- SAST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CFCHAUTAUQUA FUND - 2019one grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
The north florida land trust is dedicated to preserving the natural areas, historic resources, and working lands of north florida.
Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.
History fort lauderdale brings the stories of our diverse community to life through educational experiences, cultural exhibits, research, and preservation for future generations.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.
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To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library Foundation Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 95 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 CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SKANEATELES SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds SKANEATELES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES BOATING MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville High School Band Association ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Arts For Life ↗
- Who funds WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA WOMEN'S CLUB 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.
Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Dwight W Winkelman Foundation Inc · The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation · The Margetts Foundation · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · Triad Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Carbonari Family Foundation · Sweet Peas Foundation · Columbian Foundation 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 Fletcher Foundation Inc 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.
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% 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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