· 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $494k
- $250k+7 grants · $7.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Rhode Island | $2,982,013 |
| American Online Giving Foundation | $1,948,665 |
| National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| United Way of King County | $379,936 |
| International Scholarship & Tuition Services | $370,096 |
| Spencer Educational Foundation | $350,000 |
| United Way of King County | $307,812 |
| United Kingdom Online Giving Foundation | $205,551 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $95,830 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $74,762 |
| United Way of TriCounty | $63,772 |
| United Way of TriCounty | $54,304 |
| MA Maritime Academy Foundation | $40,000 |
| University of Southern California | $20,000 |
| First Tee | $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 (FY21–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 67% of Fm Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- SESPENCER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +69%
- PPPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY3× · 2021–2023 · $450k · revenue +29%
- UWUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $319k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- UKUnited Kingdom Online Givingone grant, 2020 · $584k
- HCHasbro Childrens Hospitalone grant, 2020 · $500k
- ISINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP & TUITION SERVICEone grant, 2021 · $493k
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.
to prevent the loss of life and to control or reduce the loss of property by applying all of our knowledge and resources.
Volunteer fire department
Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.
Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services
Fire and ems protection
Fire protection service for the marklesburg area
Volunteer fire department
Volunteer fire dept
Volunteer fire department
Extinguish fires, provide member training, educate the public on fire safety, conduct fire drills, inspect commercial properties for fire code violations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Co and the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. 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 24 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 615 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPENCER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HOME FIRE SPRINKLER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC EXPENDITURE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds FIRE DEPARTMENT MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CAMPUS FIRE SAFETY 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: 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
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 Fm 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Inc — 87% of income from government
- Scotland Volunteer Fire Department — 56% of income from government
- Connecticut State Firefighters Association Inc — 44% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Western Fire Chiefs Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Interfaith Service Coalition of Hancock Maryland Inc — 5% of income from government
- Sherman Volunteer Fire Department — 0% 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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