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Foyer Foundation at a glance

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Foyer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$85k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$361kEducation$174kPublic Benefit$50kInternational$13k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$9,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART$85,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$12,500
KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY$10,000
EISENHOWER FOUNDATION$10,000
FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC$9,000
FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA$8,000
NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL$8,000
MPOWER NOW INC$5,794
LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION$5,000
627 STOMP$3,000
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $9k → 17%EISENHOWER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PARK UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA: $12k → 10%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $85k → 15%MPOWER NOW INC: $6k → 13%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $62k → 11%FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $6k → 17%EISENHOWER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA: $8k → 10%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $65k → 15%MPOWER NOW INC: $5k → 13%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $62k → 11%EISENHOWER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA: $5k → 10%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS: $10k → 11%LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%MPOWER NOW INC: $3k → 13%EISENHOWER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA: $5k → 10%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%MILDRED LANE KEMPER ART MUSEUM: $10k → 11%NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 15%627 STOMP: $3k → 15%PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $10k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $10k → 15%NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $8k → 15%NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $5k → 15%NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $5k → 15%NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $5k → 15%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$566k · 10 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$566k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+9%

Still filing today

90%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TE
    The Eisenhower Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +269%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +6%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • ML
    MILDRED LANE KEMPER ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • WU
    WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • PH
    PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +9%
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
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
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
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
11
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is Mpower Now Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $250,000 · OtherNELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ARTThe Eisenhower Foundation: $40,000 · OtherThe Eisenhower Foundation+3 more: $23,000 · Other+3 moreThe Trustees of Princeton University: $123,801 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton Unive…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $31,500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY+2 more: $9,000 · Education+2 moreKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYM…FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA: $29,500 · Arts & CultureFRENCH COLONIAL…NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $23,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MU…FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $15,243 · InternationalMPOWER NOW INC: $13,294 · InternationalLinda Hall Library Foundation: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$313,000Education$164,301Arts & Culture$82,500International$28,537Public Benefit$10,000

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 budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $123,801 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA: $29,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $15,243 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMPOWER NOW INC: $13,294 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetLinda Hall Library Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK UNIVERSITY: $4,000 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–25%
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 Foyer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Foyer 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 15 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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