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Frisbie Legacy Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$146kHousing & Shelter$123kInternational$26kHuman Services$22kEnvironment$14kCivil Rights$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$24,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$10,000
FAMILYAID BOSTON INC$10,000
ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC$10,000
THE ARC PIKES PEAK REGION$5,000
HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS$5,000
WHITE MEN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE$2,000
CITIZENS PROJECT$2,000
GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK$1,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $6k → 16%WHITE MEN FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $2k → 22%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $10k → 17%CITIZENS PROJECT: $2k → 9%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $1k → 17%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $15k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $15k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $8k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $8k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $5k → 16%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

NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
NC
DC
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$290k · 6 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$290k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-2%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalEnvironmentSocial ScienceHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +82%
  • HF
    HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +65%
  • LS
    LAND'S SAKE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue 0%
  • MW
    MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +7%
  • AV
    AUTISM VISION OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
Rise Against Hunger Inc

Rise against hunger, inc. is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime. rise against hunger distributes food and other…

International
2
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
3
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Human Rights Watch Inc

Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…

International
6
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
7
Refugee Protection International Inc

Rpi's mission is to partner with local non-gov organizations and others to strengthen protection and self-reliance among refugees and internally displaced persons near conflict zones.

International
8
World Coffee Research

World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…

International
9
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
10
Relief International Inc

Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…

International
11
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
12
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home for Little Wanderers Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

16 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. 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $133,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $66,000 · OtherFAMILYAID BOSTON INCTHE ARC PIKES PEAK REGION: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $3,200 · OtherHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $56,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILD…ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INCMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND IN…THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERE…+2 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $16,800 · Public Safety & DisasterISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $3,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLAND'S SAKE INC: $14,000 · EnvironmentInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $3,000 · InternationalACTIONAID USA: $3,000 · Social ScienceBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$212,200Human Services$82,000Public Safety & Disaster$19,800Environment$14,000International$6,000Social Science$3,000Housing & Shelter$1,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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 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
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.

Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Land's Sake Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–50%
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.

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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By state
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