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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.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$292kPhilanthropy$128kHealth$40kFood & Nutrition$39kEnvironment$37kEducation$33kRecreation & Sports$26kAnimals$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $136k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION$136,000
CHAUTAUQUA FUND$10,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MANNA FOOD BANK$5,000
FINGER LAKES BOATING MUSEUM$4,000
BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE INC$3,000
HERMITAGE ARTIST RETREAT$2,500
PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$2,500
SKANEATELES SKI CLUB INC$2,500
SKANEATELES HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,500
FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST$2,500
THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM$2,000
SKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC$2,000
ROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 11%LAKER TRANSPORTATION PROJECT: $1k → 14%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

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NC
DC
FL
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$490k · 52 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
32

Total granted

$490k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+29%

Still filing today

52%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • MANNA FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +230%
  • SL
    SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +663%
  • SF
    SKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • SA
    ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CF
    CHAUTAUQUA FUND - 2021
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • CF
    CHAUTAUQUA FUND - 2019
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.

Environment
2
South Carolina Aquarium

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.

Animals
3
North Florida Land Trust Inc

The north florida land trust is dedicated to preserving the natural areas, historic resources, and working lands of north florida.

Environment
4
Carolina Tiger Rescue

Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.

Animals
5
Fort Lauderdale Historical Society Inc

History fort lauderdale brings the stories of our diverse community to life through educational experiences, cultural exhibits, research, and preservation for future generations.

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6
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
7
Wildcoast

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.…

Environment
8
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

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.

Animals
9
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences

Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.

Arts & Culture
10
Lake George Land Conservancy Inc

Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.

Environment
11
Asheville Watchdog

Our nbsp;mission nbsp;is nbsp;to nbsp;inform nbsp;and nbsp;engage nbsp;the nbsp;citizens nbsp;of nbsp;asheville nbsp;and nbsp;surrounding nbsp;communities nbsp;by nbsp;providing nbsp;fair nbsp;factual nbsp;and nbsp;reliable nbsp;in-depth…

Arts & Culture
12
The Charleston Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
27/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAUTAUQUA FUND: $80,000 · OtherCHAUTAUQUA FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAWSON BOATING HERITAGE FUND: $28,000 · OtherLAWSON BOATING HERITAGE FUNDSKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $19,000 · OtherROYAL PALM PLAYERS: $18,500 · OtherRAINBOW MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $15,750 · Other+66 more: $209,679 · Other+66 moreCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $136,000 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTIONROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC: $29,500 · Arts & CultureROYAL PALM PLAYERS INCSKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureSKANEATELES FESTIVAL INCTHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUMSKANEATELES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,450 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $26,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $22,000 · Food & NutritionSKANEATELES ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 · Food & NutritionVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $7,500 · AnimalsSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $5,000 · AnimalsBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsSHY WOLF SANCTUARY EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE CENTER INC: $2,500 · AnimalsASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · AnimalsAPPALACHIAN WILDLIFE REFUGE: $1,000 · AnimalsSKANEATELES SKI CLUB INC: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $13,500 · EnvironmentASHEVILLE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentBOCA GRANDE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $14,999 · Community Improvement
Other$400,929Arts & Culture$236,450Food & Nutrition$23,000Animals$21,000Recreation & Sports$16,000Environment$15,500Community Improvement$14,999

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $136,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC: $29,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $19,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM: $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSKANEATELES SKI CLUB INC: $16,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetBOCA GRANDE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $14,999 over 2y, 29% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSKANEATELES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,450 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetJOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAsheville High School Band Association: $6,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFINGER LAKES BOATING MUSUEM INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetArts For Life: $5,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA WOMEN'S CLUB INC: $4,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFULL MOON FARM INC: $3,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ST MARY'S IN THE MOUNTAINS: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHY WOLF SANCTUARY EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE Center for Disordered Eating dba Carolina Resource Center for Eating: $2,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN WILDLIFE REFUGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMemoryCare Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKANEATELES LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $779 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarolina Day School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACT INC: $200 over 1y, 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 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 THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SKANEATELES SKI CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds SKANEATELES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
  • 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 PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Asheville High School Band Association ↗
  • Who funds FINGER LAKES BOATING MUSUEM INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds Arts For Life ↗
  • Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA WOMEN'S CLUB INC ↗

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.

Central New York Community Foundation IncNY21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fletcher Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Fletcher Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fletcher Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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