How much does Fm Foundation give?

Fm Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $7,934,230 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 136 and 166 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Fm Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (79%), Education (11%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%).

Who are Fm Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United Way of King County ($1.4M), International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc ($1.3M), Spencer Educational Foundation Inc ($1.1M).

Does Fm Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Fm Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fm Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc, The Leary Firefighters Foundation, Pobble Stone Foundation.

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Rhode Island · Private foundation

Fm Foundation

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.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 25
Grants FY2024: 166
Organizations funded FY2023: 95%
First-time grantees FY2023

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62% of Fm Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to United Way Of Rhode Island Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $2,982,013
Organizations funded a year: 136 to 166; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 14
Total assets, FY2024: $17M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 95% of the organizations Fm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	18	$3.0M	50%
FY2023	166	$1.4M	95%
FY2022	162	$1.8M	94%
FY2021	162	$2.4M	97%
FY2020	136	$2.7M	n/a

83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$28MEducation$3.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MArts & Culture$1.0MHealth$528kEmployment$112kPublic Benefit$106kCivil Rights$100kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United Way of King County	$1,373,172	4	1%
International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc	$1,252,692	3	n/a
Spencer Educational Foundation Inc	$1,060,000	5	12%
National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation	$1,000,000	1	2%
Providence Public Library	$450,000	3	2%
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc	$405,484	3	0%
United Way of Tri County Inc	$318,628	4	1%
Western Fire Chiefs Association Inc	$150,000	1	7%
United States Fund for Unicef	$75,000	1	0%
Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Inc	$45,000	2	4%

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All grantees of Fm Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United Way of King County	$1,373,172	4	1%
International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc	$1,252,692	3	n/a
Spencer Educational Foundation Inc	$1,060,000	5	12%
National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation	$1,000,000	1	2%
Providence Public Library	$450,000	3	2%
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc	$405,484	3	0%
United Way of Tri County Inc	$318,628	4	1%
Western Fire Chiefs Association Inc	$150,000	1	7%
United States Fund for Unicef	$75,000	1	0%
Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Inc	$45,000	2	4%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	0%
Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council	$37,416	1	5%
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey	$36,168	3	0%
Community Preparatory School	$35,600	2	1%
United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc	$25,000	1	1%
United Way of Kentucky Inc	$25,000	1	7%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc	$19,240	3	0%
Fire Department Museum of Memphis Inc	$17,150	1	2%
The Center for Campus Fire Safety Inc	$15,000	1	8%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$10,000	1	0%
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
City of Chandler	$9,250	1	n/a
Grow Smart Rhode Island	$9,000	2	1%
Cornerstone Family Counseling Services Inc	$9,000	1	n/a
The Common Ground Project	$5,000	1	n/a
Burn Institute	$5,000	1	0%
Rhode Island Busniess Competition Inc	$5,000	1	5%
Lake Almanor Community Foundation	$4,193	1	3%
Kershaw County	$4,000	1	n/a
East Orange Health Dept	$4,000	1	n/a
City of Benton Harbor	$3,996	2	n/a
City of Cleveland Heights Oh	$3,902	1	n/a
City of Harrisonburg Fire Department	$3,900	1	n/a
National Volunteer Fire Council Inc	$3,750	1	0%
City of Brainerd	$3,700	1	n/a
Nature Lodge	$3,500	1	n/a
Lake County Fire Chiefs Association Inc	$3,500	1	6%
Arson Alarm Foundation	$3,317	1	n/a
Hose Co No 1	$3,256	1	4%
Worcester Public Library	$3,236	1	n/a
Ellettsville Volunteer Fire	$3,200	1	4%
Monroeton Volunteer Fire Department	$3,126	1	1%
Scotland Volunteer Fire Department	$3,095	1	2%
County of Burlington	$3,074	1	n/a
Sherman Volunteer Fire Department	$3,000	1	1%
Arizona City Fire District	$3,000	1	n/a
Bushnell's Basin Fire Association	$3,000	1	0%
Connecticut State Firefighters Association Inc	$3,000	1	4%
South Fire District	$2,997	1	n/a
City of McAlester	$2,996	1	n/a
South Bay Fire Department Inc	$2,995	1	1%
Mart Volunteer Fire Dept Inc	$2,961	1	1%
South Fayette Township Volunteer Fire Department	$2,796	1	1%
Town of New Canaan	$2,760	1	n/a
City of Erie	$2,733	1	n/a
Central Alexander Fire Department	$2,722	1	1%
Liberty Township Fire Department Inc	$2,700	1	n/a
Cottage Grove Vol Fire Department	$2,639	1	2%
Bungay Fire Brigade	$2,600	1	n/a
Eynon Sturges Volunteer Hose Co No 3	$2,600	1	1%
East 52 Volunteer Fire Department	$2,574	1	n/a
Idaho Firewise Inc	$2,500	1	1%
Unadilla Firefighters Association Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
Intercourse Fire Company	$2,500	1	1%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Glenn Dale Fire Association Inc	$2,500	1	1%
Redland Volunteer Fire Department	$2,500	1	2%
Miami Valley Fire District	$2,497	1	n/a
Warehouse Point Fire Department Incorporated	$2,475	1	n/a
Madison Township Fire Department	$2,453	1	n/a
Virginia Beach Fire Foundation	$2,445	1	18%
Adamstown Fire Company	$2,399	1	2%
City of Trenton Ohio	$2,397	1	n/a
Fort Ann Volunteer Fire Companyinc	$2,396	1	1%
Wilson Fire Company #1	$2,361	1	2%
Platteville Fire Department Inc	$2,338	1	3%
West Manchester Township Fire Department	$2,338	1	1%
Bryn Athyn Fire Company	$2,326	1	0%
Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Co	$2,300	1	0%
Pikeville Fire Department	$2,257	1	n/a
City of Mission	$2,230	1	n/a
Moscow Fire & Hose Company	$2,196	1	0%
Rockport Volunteer Fire Department	$2,138	1	n/a
Eastern Madera County Fire Safe Council Inc	$2,091	1	1%
Stony Point Volunteer Fire Dept	$2,070	1	1%
Plainfield Township Volunteer Fire Compa	$2,033	1	1%
Sabattus Fire Department	$2,000	1	n/a
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	$2,000	1	n/a
Cortlandville Fire Department Inc	$2,000	1	3%
Slocum Township Volunteer Fire Company No 1	$2,000	1	2%
Franklin Fire Company	$1,999	1	0%
Stewart County Fire and Rescue	$1,980	1	1%
Blackjack Volunteer Fire Dept	$1,974	1	2%
Cook Springs Volunteer Fire Department	$1,974	1	2%
Hianloland Fire Co co Henry Eberle	$1,939	1	1%
W Thompson Independent Fire Association 1 Inc	$1,932	1	3%
Fire Museum of Maryland Inc	$1,920	1	0%
Dover Health Dept	$1,900	1	n/a
Pittsboro Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department Inc	$1,887	1	0%
Butte County	$1,770	1	n/a
Greensburg Fire Dept Board of Control	$1,767	1	1%
Sandisfield Fire Department Inc	$1,752	1	n/a
Guil-Rand Fire Protective Association Inc	$1,721	1	0%
City of Twin Falls	$1,674	1	n/a
City of Camden	$1,666	1	n/a
Interfaith Service Coalition of Hancock Maryland Inc	$1,630	1	0%
East Carnegie Volunteer Department	$1,608	1	1%
Whitesboro Volunteer Fire Department	$1,600	1	n/a
Corry Regional Fire Company	$1,500	1	0%
Level Volunteer Fire Company Inc	$1,500	1	0%
City Of Victorville	$1,498	1	n/a
Freehold Volunteer Fire Company Inc	$1,475	1	1%
Sparta Township Fire Department Inc	$1,453	1	2%
Los Angeles Police Foundation	$1,432	1	0%
Willington Fire Department Inc 1	$1,282	1	n/a
FASNY Museum of Firefighting	$1,100	1	0%
Olive Volunteer Fire Department Inc	$1,090	1	n/a
City of Weslaco	$1,043	1	n/a
Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Company	$1,038	1	0%
Cen-Clear Child Services Inc	$1,025	1	0%
Scioto Valley Fire District	$995	1	n/a
McQueeney Volunteer Fire Department	$868	1	0%
Campbell County Rural Fire Svcs Inc	$800	1	1%
Town of Plainfield	$700	1	n/a
United Way of Greater Cleveland	$480	1	0%
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$400	2	0%
Spring Hill Volunteer Fire Department Inc	$287	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 483 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fm Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 83.

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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.

Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation IncFL28× affinity20 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · The Leary Firefighters Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · California Fire Foundation · Gary Sinise Foundation · Tc Energy Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Land O'Lakes 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.

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About Fm Foundation

How much does Fm Foundation give?: Fm Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $7,934,230 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 136 and 166 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Fm Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (79%), Education (11%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%).
Who are Fm Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United Way of King County ($1.4M), International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc ($1.3M), Spencer Educational Foundation Inc ($1.1M).
Does Fm Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fm Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fm Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc, The Leary Firefighters Foundation, Pobble Stone Foundation.
Where is Fm Foundation based?: Fm Foundation is based in RI.