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Foraker 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.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$57kEducation$9kPublic Benefit$7kPhilanthropy$4kHealth$3kHuman Services$1kCivil Rights$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$129k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESNO STATE BULLDOG FOUNDATION$8,847
PARKINSON FOUNDATION$2,650
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$600
Individual grant recipient$500
CLAREMONT INSTITUTE$500
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$500
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$500
NLPC LEGAL POLICY CENTER$200
MAYO CLINIC$200
INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE SOCIETY$100
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FORWARD STRIDE: $100 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
MI
NY
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CA
MO
VA
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DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$63k · 10 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$63k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

30%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

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

  • TB
    THE BULLDOG FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +10%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
    2× · 2021–2024 · $700 · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • FS
    FRESNO STATE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • CC
    Cabrillo College Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +44%

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

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Foundation. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BULLDOG FOUNDATION — $56,072 · EducationTHE BULLDOG FOUNDATIONUCLA FOUNDATION — $3,000 · EducationCabrillo College Foundation — $2,500 · Education+3 more — $825 · EducationFRESNO STATE FOUNDATION — $3,500 · OtherFRESNO STATE FOUNDATI…Individual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…CALIFORNIA REGIONAL EDUCATION CENTERS — $1,617 · OtherCALIFORNIA REGIONAL E…Individual grant recipient — $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…Institute for Humane Studies — $1,000 · OtherInstitute for Humane …TURNING POINT — $1,000 · OtherTURNING POINTTHE SALVATION ARMY — $950 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $700 · OtherFRESNO STATE RUGBY CLUB — $650 · Other+14 more — $3,090 · Other+14 moreLeadership Institute — $2,850 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $2,800 · Public BenefitPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $2,650 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $200 · Health+2 more — $200 · HealthHERITAGE FOUNDATION — $500 · Arts & CultureFORWARD STRIDE — $100 · Human Services
Education$62,397Other$16,507Public Benefit$5,650Health$3,050Arts & Culture$500Human Services$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BULLDOG FOUNDATION — $56,072 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $2,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $2,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD STRIDE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE BULLDOG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation
  • Who funds Institute for Humane Studies
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds FORWARD STRIDE
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Foraker 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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