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Fortune Family Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ADVOCATES | $225,000 |
| THE HUNGER COALITION | $115,401 |
| SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $85,000 |
| SWIFTSURE RANCH | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $60,000 |
| SAWTOOTH UNITED FC | $25,000 |
| THE SMALL WORLD USA | $25,000 |
| IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (NAMI) | $25,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY | $20,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $10,000 |
| OPHELIA PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $460k 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
- SVSun Valley Community School Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $236k · revenue +56%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +46%
- SRSWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC2× · 2018–2019 · $80k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue +91%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $12k
- BBBEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -85%
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 help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
JHCS prepares students to succeed in college and life through challenging academics and excellence in teaching, in a community founded on personal relationships, student initiative, and integrity.
Girl scouting builds girls* of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
We envision a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams. Girls on the Run strives to recognize our power and responsibility to be intentional in our decision making to…
Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
A nonprofit organization rooted in the wood river valley, idaho basecamp helps develop resilience, confidence, and connection in youth through adventure, exploration, and intentional play in the outdoors.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
To provide positive youth development to Idaho youth by focusing on Science Healthy Living and Citizenship by promoting and encouraging volunteers to help youth flourish.
GirlVentures provides outdoor programs during the summer and afterschool year round for Bay Area girls age 11-17. Our mission is to inspire girls to lead through outdoor adventure, inner discovery and collective action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is John F Kennedy Memorial Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Beyond Batten Disease Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SMALL WORLD USA ↗
- Who funds SAWTOOTH UNITED FC INC ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Southern Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds United Friend Group Home ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO 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: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fortune Family 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.
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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