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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.

$695k
Granted FY2019
12
Grants FY2019
5
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2019.

Education$241kCrime & Legal$225kHealth$184kFood & Nutrition$115kPublic Safety & Disaster$80kAnimals$25kRecreation & Sports$25kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2019 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $560k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ADVOCATES$225,000
THE HUNGER COALITION$115,401
SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL$85,000
SWIFTSURE RANCH$75,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$60,000
IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
THE SMALL WORLD USA$25,000
SAWTOOTH UNITED FC$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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%UNITED FRIENDS GROUP HOMES: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $60k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 9%SWIFTSURE RANCH: $75k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH: $5k → 7%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

WA
ID
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
TX
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$445k · 6 repeat orgs$536k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$445k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+134%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $460k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • SV
    Sun Valley Community School Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $236k · revenue +56%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +46%
  • SR
    SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $80k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue +91%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • BB
    BEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -85%
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
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse

To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.

Food & Nutrition
2
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
3
Jackson Hole Community School

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.

Education
4
Girl Scouts of Western Washington

Girl scouting builds girls* of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
5
Girls on the Run of Central Illinois

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…

Youth Development
6
Girl Scouts of West Central Florida Inc

Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

—
7
Idaho Base Camp Inc

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.

Environment
8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
10
Regents of the University of Idaho Group Return

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.

—
11
Girlventures

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.

Human Services
12
Skyline Mountain Bike Team Inc
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is John F Kennedy Memorial Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ADVOCATES: $225,000 · OtherTHE ADVOCATESJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $37,500 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $30,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (NAMI): $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (NAM…OPHELIA PROJECT: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $20,000 · Other+3 moreSun Valley Community School Inc: $236,000 · EducationSun Valley Community School I…BEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $80,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesSWIFTSURE RANCH THERA…SMALL WORLD USA: $25,000 · Human ServicesSMALL WORLD USA+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $115,401 · Food & NutritionBLAINE COUNTY…SAWTOOTH UNITED FC INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Southern Idaho Inc: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentIdaho Humane Society Inc: $25,000 · AnimalsNAMI National: $1,000 · HealthOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$352,500Education$251,000Human Services$190,000Food & Nutrition$115,401Youth Development$45,000Animals$25,000Health$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $236,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $115,401 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $80,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAWTOOTH UNITED FC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Friend Group Home: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI National: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fortune Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fortune Family Foundation 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 21 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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