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Foundation for Fairer Capitalism at a glance

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Foundation for Fairer Capitalism

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$74k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$110kEducation$66kHealth$19kHuman Services$7kSocial Science$5kCrime & Legal$5kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$125k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THEATRE LAB INC$35,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$15,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$10,000
CEDARS SINAI$5,000
THE NEW PRESS$3,000
THE HARVARD LAMPOON$2,000
FAINTING ROBIN FOUNDATION$2,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE COLLEGE$2,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%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
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 18 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+33%

Still filing today

72%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • FF
    FILM FORUM INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $900k · revenue +38%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    8× · 2017–2026 · $250k · revenue +71%
  • TL
    THEATRE LAB INC
    7× · 2017–2026 · $126k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • AS
    A SENSE OF HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +33%
  • WF
    WINTER FILM AWARDS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -19%
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
8
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
9
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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10
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
11
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Write Now Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FILM FORUM INC: $900,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INCFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $250,200 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCTHEATRE LAB INC: $126,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE LAB INCSOHO PLAYHOUSE INC: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTIDES FOUNDATION: $111,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PRESENT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $18,000 · OtherTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $17,500 · OtherFAINTING ROBIN FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $7,000 · OtherTHE HARMONY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherPACE SCHOOL OF LAW: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $8,500 · 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: $10,000 · HealthMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc: $1,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $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$1,361,200Philanthropy$112,000Other$82,000Education$65,000Health$17,000Human Services$10,000Employment$7,500Recreation & Sports$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFILM FORUM INC: $900,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $250,200 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATRE LAB INC: $126,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $111,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARVARD LAMPOON INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWINTER FILM AWARDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNYLAUGHS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSingle Carrot Theatre Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIra Sohn Conference Foundation Inc: $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 York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $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.

Jewish Communal FundPaypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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