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Fribourg Family Foundation at a glance

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Fribourg Family Foundation

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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MHealth$174kInternational$174kReligion$82kArts & Culture$73kHuman Services$39kRecreation & Sports$33kScience & Tech$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$44,500
Median grant
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States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LSE FOUNDATION$44,500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%University of Pennsylvania: $25k → 22%Claremont McKenna College: $50k → 14%Cornell University: $25k → 16%Teachers College Columbia Universit: $25k → 17%Georgetown University: $125k → 14%Brown University: $125k → 14%Blair Academy: $13k → 7%Princeton University: $50k → 11%Tuck At Dartmouth: $25k → 10%University of Pennsylvania: $25k → 22%Claremont McKenna College: $38k → 14%Cornell University: $13k → 16%Teachers College Columbia Universit: $13k → 17%Brown University: $125k → 14%University of Pennsylvania: $23k → 22%Claremont McKenna College: $30k → 14%Brown University: $85k → 14%Thomas Jefferson University: $25k → 22%Claremont McKenna College: $30k → 14%Brown University: $85k → 14%Claremont McKenna College: $28k → 14%LSE FOUNDATION: $58k → 17%Brown University: $80k → 14%LSE FOUNDATION: $56k → 17%Columbia University Dept of Ophtham: $25k → 17%LSE FOUNDATION: $45k → 17%PARK EAST DAY SCHOOL: $25k → 17%Park East Synagogue: $20k → 17%The Lawrenceville School: $15k → 11%Park East Synagogue: $20k → 17%PARK EAST DAY SCHOOL: $20k → 17%Park East Synagogue: $20k → 17%Thirteen: $25k → 17%DKMS Delete Blood Cancer: $25k → 17%DKMS Delete Blood Cancer: $25k → 17%DKMS Delete Blood Cancer: $25k → 17%DKMS Delete Blood Cancer: $25k → 17%NYU School of Law: $50k → 17%The Nightingal-Bamford School: $55k → 17%The Nightingal-Bamford School: $53k → 17%The Nightingal-Bamford School: $50k → 17%Dwight School Foundation: $65k → 17%Dwight School Foundation: $50k → 17%Dwight School Foundation: $50k → 17%Dwight School Foundation: $50k → 17%Dwight School Foundation: $50k → 17%Dwight School Foundation: $15k → 17%Seeds of Peace: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Fribourg Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Fribourg Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 21 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
18

Total granted

$2.1M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-14%

Still filing today

76%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalHealthRecreation & 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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $575k · revenue +47%
  • DS
    DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $280k · revenue +9%
  • CM
    Claremont McKenna College
    5× · 2018–2022 · $175k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • NS
    NYU School of Law
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $36k
  • CU
    Columbia University Dept of Ophtham
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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.

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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
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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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Boston Architectural College

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

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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
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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
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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
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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
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Manhattanville University

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

Education
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University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
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The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
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Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
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Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Tel Aviv Museum's American Friends Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $575,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $160,000 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOLCornell University: $77,500 · EducationCornell UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $72,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAThe Trustees of Princeton University: $62,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityTeachers College Columbia University: $62,500 · EducationTeachers College Columbia University+8 more: $129,800 · Education+8 moreDWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $280,000 · OtherDWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATIONClaremont McKenna College: $175,000 · OtherClaremont McKenna CollegePark East Synagogue: $80,000 · OtherPark East SynagogueIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAssociaton La Florimontaine: $65,072 · OtherAssociaton La FlorimontaineNYU School of Law: $50,000 · OtherNYU School of LawPARK EAST DAY SCHOOL: $45,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $35,761 · Other+10 more: $72,055 · Other+10 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYLSE FOUNDATION: $158,500 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $15,000 · InternationalDKMS: $100,000 · HealthNorthwestern University: $32,500 · Recreation & SportsBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA): $10,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,139,800Other$917,888Community Improvement$500,000International$173,500Health$100,000Recreation & Sports$32,500Arts & Culture$30,000

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 budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $575,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $280,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $175,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLSE FOUNDATION: $158,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetDKMS: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $77,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $72,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $62,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $62,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $31,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Peddie School: $21,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION (USA): $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWellesley College: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL BOLTON CHARITIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $300 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Fribourg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fribourg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Fribourg Family 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 42 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home