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Frisbie Legacy 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.

$70k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$24,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Frisbie Legacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Public Safety & DisasterInternationalHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$70k50%
FY202312$100k67%
FY20224$87k0%
FY20215$40k20%
FY20205$42kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$146kHousing & Shelter$123kInternational$26kHuman Services$22kEnvironment$14kCivil Rights$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
NC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Familyaid Boston Inc$66,00050%
Horizons for Homeless Children$56,00050%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$16,80010%
Land's Sake Inc$14,00040%
Room to Grow National Inc$11,00020%
The Arc Pikes Peak Region$10,00020%
Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc$6,00010%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$5,00010%
Autism Vision of Colorado$3,0001n/a
Israaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc$3,00010%
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All grantees of Frisbie Legacy Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Familyaid Boston Inc$66,00050%
Horizons for Homeless Children$56,00050%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$16,80010%
Land's Sake Inc$14,00040%
Room to Grow National Inc$11,00020%
The Arc Pikes Peak Region$10,00020%
Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc$6,00010%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$5,00010%
Autism Vision of Colorado$3,0001n/a
Israaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc$3,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$3,00010%
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace$3,00010%
Actionaid USA$3,00010%
Citizens Project$2,00012%
White Men for Racial Justice Inc$2,00010%
Beloved Asheville$1,00010%
Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frisbie Legacy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamilyaid Boston Inc: $66,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHorizons for Homeless Children: $56,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Empowerment Mission Inc: $16,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLand's Sake Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRoom to Grow National Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Arc Pikes Peak Region: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMassachusetts Wonderfund Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsraaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Endowment for International Peace: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActionaid USA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens Project: $2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWhite Men for Racial Justice Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBeloved Asheville: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Harvest Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Network for GoodDC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · 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.

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About Frisbie Legacy Foundation

How much does Frisbie Legacy Foundation give?
Frisbie Legacy Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Frisbie Legacy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Housing & Shelter (36%), International (8%).
Who are Frisbie Legacy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Familyaid Boston Inc ($66k), Horizons for Homeless Children ($56k), Global Empowerment Mission Inc ($17k).
Does Frisbie Legacy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frisbie Legacy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frisbie Legacy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Frisbie Legacy Foundation based?
Frisbie Legacy Foundation is based in MA.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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