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Foundation for Fairer Capitalism

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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$110kEducation$66kHealth$19kHuman Services$7kSocial Science$5kCrime & Legal$5kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$195k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Theatre Lab Inc$10,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$5,000
CEDARS SINAI$5,000
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 (FY17–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%A SENSE OF HOME: $7k → 14%NY LAUGHS: $1k → 17%NY LAUGHS: $1k → 17%NY LAUGHS: $1k → 17%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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 17 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$1.4M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+33%

Still filing today

71%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • FF
    FILM FORUM INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $900k · revenue +38%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +71%
  • TL
    THEATRE LAB INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • AS
    A SENSE OF HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +33%
  • PS
    PACE SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

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
Soho Repertory Theatre Inc

Soho repertory provides radical theater makers with productions of the highest caliber and tailor-made development at key junctures in their artistic practice. we elevate artists as thought leaders and citizens who change the field and…

Arts & Culture
2
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
3
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
4
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
5
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
6
Theatre for a New Audience Inc

The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…

Arts & Culture
7
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…

Arts & Culture
8
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
9
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
10
The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture
11
Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center Inc

Founded in 1981, vineyard theatre is an off-broadway theatre company dedicated to developing and producing new plays and musicals that push boundaries of what theatre can be and do. we seek to nurture a daring community of theatre makers…

Arts & Culture
12
The New Group Inc

The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Write Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCollege Foundation Fundrais…Mental Health & Disability …Medical Research FundingSocial Justice Infrastructu…K-12 Schools and Early Chil…Community Arts Education
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr12%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr11%67%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/27
the rest of the field
14%
11,328/80,700

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 34 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FILM FORUM INC — $900,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INCFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $235,200 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCTHEATRE LAB INC — $91,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE LAB INCSOHO PLAYHOUSE INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureSOHO PLAYHOUSE INC+3 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTIDES FOUNDATION — $101,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PRESENT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $18,000 · OtherTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC — $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherFAINTING ROBIN FOUNDATION — $9,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE — $7,000 · OtherPACE SCHOOL OF LAW — $5,000 · OtherTHE HARMONY INSTITUTE — $5,000 · Other+4 more — $6,500 · OtherFordham University — $55,000 · EducationHER STORY MENTORSHIP INC — $5,000 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $3,000 · Education+2 more — $2,000 · EducationCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 · HealthMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · HealthHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,000 · HealthIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc — $1,000 · HealthA SENSE OF HOME — $7,000 · Human ServicesNYLAUGHS INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC — $7,500 · EmploymentCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$1,306,200Philanthropy$102,000Other$78,000Education$65,000Health$12,000Human Services$10,000Employment$7,500Recreation & Sports$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFILM FORUM INC — $900,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $235,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $101,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE LAB INC — $91,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetSOHO PLAYHOUSE INC — $70,000 over 6y, 93% of budgetFordham University — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRESENT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $18,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINTER FILM AWARDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHARVARD LAMPOON INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNYLAUGHS INC — $3,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSingle Carrot Theatre Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc — $1,000 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Foundation for Fairer Capitalism 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Foundation for Fairer Capitalism?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation for Fairer Capitalism 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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