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Fulk Family Charitable Trust

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$31kHuman Services$24kPhilanthropy$23kFood & Nutrition$17kHealth$14kArts & Culture$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
12
States reached
$104k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Salvation Army$5,000
WTIU$3,000
Beacon$3,000
Tunnels 2 Towers$3,000
VEAP$2,000
Second Harvest$2,000
FIRE$1,500
World Central Kitchen$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
UCLA Health Services$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
St Judes Childrens Hospital$1,000
Friends of United Hatzalah$1,000
Edina Education Fund$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Unbound: $500 → 16%Common Ground: $750 → 5%Alicias House: $250 → 14%Common Ground: $500 → 5%CORE: $500 → 14%Devices 4 the Disabled: $600 → 14%Devices 4 the Disabled: $200 → 14%The PEER Center: $300 → 15%The PEER Center: $500 → 15%The PEER Center: $500 → 15%The PEER Center: $250 → 15%The PEER Center: $250 → 15%CORE: $500 → 14%Westerville Area Resource Ministry: $950 → 15%My Very Own Blanket: $800 → 15%Westerville Area Resource Ministry: $800 → 15%Westerville Area Resource Ministry: $500 → 15%My Very Own Blanket: $500 → 15%Westerville Area Resource Ministry: $500 → 15%Westerville Area Resource Ministry: $500 → 15%Neighborhood Bridges: $375 → 15%My Very Own Blanket: $300 → 15%My Very Own Blanket: $250 → 15%My Very Own Blanket: $250 → 15%Westerville Area Resource Ministry: $250 → 15%Neighborhood Bridges: $250 → 15%Huckleberry House: $250 → 15%The PEER Center: $275 → 15%Neighborhood Bridges: $100 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
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MI
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IN
OH
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NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
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NC
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$107k · 39 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
46

Total granted

$107k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+16%

Still filing today

74%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +392%
  • BI
    BEACON INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +72%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Foundation of Western KY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • MC
    Maui Community Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • JS
    John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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4
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
5
World Hunger Relief Institute

World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.

International
6
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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7
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
8
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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9
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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10
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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12
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westerville Area Resource Ministry and the most unlike its peers is St Paul Curling Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Community Food PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Military Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …United Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,513

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Foundation of Western KY — $5,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of Western KYVEAP Inc — $5,000 · OtherVEAP IncIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY — $5,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMaui Community Fund — $5,000 · OtherMaui Community FundIndividual grant recipient — $4,000 · OtherSecond Harvest — $4,000 · Other+64 more — $59,218 · Other+64 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $9,850 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNE…BEACON INC — $9,000 · EducationBEACON INCEDINA EDUCATION FUND — $5,500 · EducationEDINA EDUCATION FUNDUCLA FOUNDATION — $2,250 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONICIVICS INC — $1,500 · EducationREADY READERS — $1,500 · Education+2 more — $1,500 · EducationWESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY — $3,500 · Human ServicesWESTERVIL…NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES — $2,540 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORH…MY VERY OWN BLANKET PROJECT INC — $2,100 · Human ServicesMY VERY O…THE PEER CENTER — $2,075 · Human ServicesTHE PEER …COMMON GROUND FREE STORE — $1,250 · Human ServicesCOMMON GR…CORE — $1,000 · Human ServicesCOREDEVICES 4 THE DISABLED — $800 · Human ServicesDEVICES 4…WESTERVILLE CARING AND SHARING — $550 · Human ServicesUnbound — $500 · Human Services+2 more — $500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA — $13,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $250 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,450 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,200 · InternationalSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $3,350 · HealthTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $2,000 · HealthHEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC — $500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $500 · HealthLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $1,750 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$92,218Education$31,100Human Services$14,815Philanthropy$13,750International$8,650Health$6,350Food & Nutrition$3,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA — $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $9,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDINA EDUCATION FUND — $5,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVEAP Inc — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $3,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES — $2,540 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $2,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMY VERY OWN BLANKET PROJECT INC — $2,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEER CENTER — $2,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS E & EDNA D CARPENTER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANTA BARBARA BIRD SANCTUARY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary — $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN VILLAGE INC — $1,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICIVICS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADY READERS — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON GROUND FREE STORE — $1,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH TECH KIDS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORE — $1,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetDEVICES 4 THE DISABLED — $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Sanctuary Inc — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERVILLE CARING AND SHARING — $550 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridging Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Paul Curling Foundation — $500 over 1y, 15% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Womens Alliance — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALICIA'S HOUSE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWine to Water — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK STREET PROJECT — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbus FoundationDelaware County Found…Cardinal Health Found…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Harry C Moores Founda…Baird Foundation IncUnited Way of Central…For the Girls IncAetna Foundation IncAssurant FoundationUnited Way Worldwide
Columbus FoundationOH23.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Delaware County Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · For the Girls Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Assurant Foundation · United Way Worldwide

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fulk Family Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • York Street Project — 32% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fulk Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Fulk Family Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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