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Fourdoves Foundation

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.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$16MInternational$12MEducation$2.8MArts & Culture$2.6MEnvironment$1.5MCivil Rights$1.4MPublic Benefit$1.4MFood & Nutrition$500kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $250k+9 grants · $7.0M
$315,513
Median grant
4
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tsadra Foundation$2,875,000
Way to Rise$1,500,000
Acumen Fund Inc$520,000
Scenic Hudson Inc$500,000
Supermajority Education Fund$500,000
Center for Artistic Activism$315,513
Institute For Freedoms Inc$250,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$250,000
American Independent Foundation$250,000
University of Chicago$30,000
Mara Elephant Project USA Inc$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADM Capital Foundation Inc: $100k → 7%Scenic Hudson Inc: $500k → 9%French American School of New York: $1.0M → 9%Center for Artistic Activism: $948k → 11%Tsadra Foundation: $4.2M → 17%American Independent Foundation: $250k → 14%Sidekick Foundation Inc: $50k → 5%University of Chicago: $30k → 14%ADM Capital Foundation Inc: $50k → 7%Scenic Hudson Inc: $500k → 9%FRENCH AMERICAN SCHOOL OF NY: $25k → 9%Center for Artistic Activism: $520k → 11%Tsadra Foundation: $2.9M → 17%American Independent Foundation: $50k → 14%Mara Elephant Project USA Inc: $25k → 5%Scenic Hudson Inc: $200k → 9%Stone Barns Restoration Corporation: $250k → 9%Center for Artistic Activism: $519k → 11%Tsadra Foundation: $2.8M → 17%Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2.0M → 14%Scenic Hudson Inc: $100k → 9%Stone Barns Restoration Corporation: $250k → 9%Center for Artistic Activism: $316k → 11%Tsadra Foundation: $2.1M → 17%Way to Rise: $1.5M → 14%Scenic Hudson Inc: $100k → 9%Latse Inc: $688k → 17%Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $450k → 14%Scenic Hudson: $100k → 9%LATSE INC: $609k → 17%TRACE FOUNDATION: $160k → 17%Trace Foundation: $70k → 17%TSADRA FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 17%Roosevelt Institute: $30k → 17%Institute For Freedoms Inc: $500k → 17%Institute For Freedoms Inc: $250k → 17%Acumen Fund Inc: $4.0M → 17%Acumen Fund Inc: $3.5M → 17%Acumen Fund Inc: $1.0M → 17%Acumen Fund Inc: $750k → 17%Acumen Fund Inc: $520k → 17%Acumen: $500k → 17%Stop Ivory Inc: $50k → 17%American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $400k → 17%ACLU Foundation: $250k → 17%American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $250k → 17%ACLU FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $200k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 13 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$34M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+8%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • TF
    TSADRA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $14M · revenue +39% · 100% of their budget
  • AF
    ACUMEN FUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $10M · revenue +50%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • VL
    VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +80%
  • SI
    STOP IVORY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -32% · 62% of their budget
  • TR
    THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +8%
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
The Asia Foundation

The asia foundation (taf) is an international nonprofit organization working to solve the toughest social and economic challenges in asia and the pacific. (continued on schedule o)

International
6
Boston Architectural College

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

—
7
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
9
Us - China Policy Foundation
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10
The American India Foundation

The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
12
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Artistic Activism Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trace 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

20 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.

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

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TSADRA FOUNDATION: $13,975,000 · PhilanthropyTSADRA FOUNDATIONAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,450,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc+1 more: $75,000 · PhilanthropyACUMEN FUND INC: $10,270,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC+1 more: $150,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC: $2,302,644 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR A…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,350,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIV…SUPERMAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 · Civil RightsSUPERMAJORIT…+1 more: $100,000 · Civil RightsWAY TO RISE: $1,500,000 · EducationTRACE FOUNDATION: $240,000 · Education+2 more: $60,000 · EducationLATSE INC: $1,297,025 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Other+1 more: $50,000 · OtherFrench-American School of New York: $1,025,000 · Arts & CultureStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $500,000 · Arts & CultureScenic Hudson Inc: $1,500,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC: $750,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$16,500,000International$10,420,000Civil Rights$4,252,644Education$1,800,000Other$1,647,025Arts & Culture$1,525,000Environment$1,500,000Public Benefit$750,000

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 budgetTSADRA FOUNDATION: $13,975,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $10,270,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,450,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC: $2,302,644 over 4y, 69% of budgetWAY TO RISE: $1,500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $1,500,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,350,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLATSE INC: $1,297,025 over 2y, 98% of budgetFrench-American School of New York: $1,025,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC: $750,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSUPERMAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $500,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRACE FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetADM CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSTOP IVORY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $30,000 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.

The Ford FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · 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 Fourdoves Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fourdoves Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Fourdoves Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fourdoves 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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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