· Private foundation
Forward Vision
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
73% of Forward Vision’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Forward Vision named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $694k
- $250k+2 grants · $779k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $526,853 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $252,500 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $194,200 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| SANTA FE INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| THIRD WAY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SCARSDALE LIBRARY | $100,000 |
| THE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC | $15,000 |
| SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION | $9,740 |
| MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE | $7,600 |
| EVERY MOTHER COUNTS | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2017, 9 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +49%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2022 · $542k · revenue +47%- TWTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2021 · $500k · revenue +81%
Funded once
CITY HARVEST INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +3%- CICATO INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -13%
WOMEN IN NEED INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
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.
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…
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCARSDALE SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION NYC INC ↗
- Who funds SCARSDALE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD SPORTS CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THE CITY ↗
- Who funds MAROON AND WHITE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S BOND CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UATX ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Charles S Raizen Foundation Inc · The V & L Marx Foundation · Siegel Family Endowment · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Milton Pollack Family Foundation Inc C/O Stephanie Miller · The Rosalie Katz Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Forward Vision funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forward Vision. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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