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Foster Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$111kEnvironment$50kArts & Culture$49kEducation$14kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$448k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC$6,000
BROOKHAVEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PAN MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE TRUST: $1k → 7%TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $10k → 11%BROOKHAVEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 7%BROOKHAVEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 17%NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $4k → 9%BROOKHAVEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 7%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $6k → 17%WILTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $50k → 9%BROOKHAVEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 7%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $6k → 17%BROOKHAVEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 7%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $6k → 17%BROOKHAVEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 7%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $6k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5k → 17%JDRF INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%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.
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 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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
Boston Architectural College

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

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5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
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
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
Brookhaven Health Care Services Corp

The goals and objectives of the foundation are as follows:to support the mission and charitable purposes of nyulhs, nyu langone hospitals ("nyulh"), lich and the medical schools owned and operated by new york university (collectively, "nyu…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AT NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $105,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AT NYU LANGONE HEALTH+1 more: $1,000 · OtherWilton Land Conservation Trust: $50,000 · EnvironmentWilton Land Conservation…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $49,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $10,000 · EducationNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $3,500 · EducationNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 · Health
Other$106,000Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$49,000Education$13,500Community Improvement$5,000Health$5,000

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 budgetLONG ISLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AT NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWilton Land Conservation Trust: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $49,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Foster Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Foster Family Charitable 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 8 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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