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Fredric Fenstermacher Foundation Inc at a glance

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Fredric Fenstermacher Foundation Inc

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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$15kHuman Services$6kAnimals$4kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$2kCivil Rights$1kArts & Culture$500Religion$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,200
Median grant
4
States reached
$262k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute$5,000
TriCounty Animal Rescue$4,000
SAVE Foundation$1,250
Florida AIDS Walk$1,200
University of Miami$500
Broward Public Liabrary Foundation$100
Alzheimers Association$100
Humane Society of Broward County$100
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 (FY20–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Pride Center at Equality Park: $1k → 13%Pride Center at Equality Park: $1k → 13%Pride Center at Equality Park: $1k → 13%Pride Center at Equality Park: $1k → 13%Pride Center at Equality Park: $850 → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
MD
DE
DC
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23k · 8 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$23k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+61%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    3× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +5%
  • TG
    THE GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MS
    Mark Samuelian Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • GS
    GEORGE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • BP
    Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
University of Miami
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3
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
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

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

—
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Michigan State University College of Law

The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…

—
9
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
10
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
11
Manhattanville University

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

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denison University; the most unlike its peers is Mark Samuelian 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $11,666 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDENISON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYUniversity of Miami: $600 · EducationTriCounty Animal Rescue: $4,000 · OtherTriCounty Animal RescueFlorida AIDS Walk: $1,800 · OtherFlorida AIDS WalkGEORGE SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherGEORGE SCHOOLBascom Palmer Eye Institute: $1,000 · OtherBascom Palmer Eye InstituteDisabled American Veterans: $500 · OtherChurch of Holy Spirit Song: $500 · OtherBroward Public Liabrary Foundation: $400 · Other+3 more: $504 · OtherTHE GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE INC: $5,450 · Human ServicesTHE GAY & LESBIAN C…Mark Samuelian Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $500 · PhilanthropySAVE FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · Civil RightsALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · HealthHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $100 · Animals
Education$14,266Other$9,704Human Services$5,450Philanthropy$1,500Civil Rights$1,250Health$100Animals$100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $11,666 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE INC: $5,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $100 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fredric Fenstermacher Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fredric Fenstermacher Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–10%
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 Fredric Fenstermacher Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fredric Fenstermacher Foundation Inc 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 19 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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