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Fsg Inc

Fsg is an international nonprofit social enterprise with a mission of accelerating the pace of social progress through philanthropic leadership. Fsg achieves its mission by providing strategy consulting, program evaluation, research and thought leadership to the nonprofit and philanthropic communities.

$40k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Fsg Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
Social 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
FY20212$40k50%
FY20202$60k50%
FY20191$25k0%
FY20181$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Youth Development$135kCommunity Improvement$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc$85,00040%
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$50,00010%
Just Capital Foundation Inc$15,48410%

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About Fsg Inc

How much does Fsg Inc give?
Fsg Inc reported 2 grants totaling $40,484 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Fsg Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Youth Development (90%), Community Improvement (10%).
Who are Fsg Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc ($85k), The Fund for Public Schools Inc ($50k), Just Capital Foundation Inc ($15k).
Does Fsg Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Fsg Inc based?
Fsg Inc 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 3 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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