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Fuller Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$168kEnvironment$148kHuman Services$125kAnimals$103kHealth$95kArts & Culture$47kScience & Tech$39kFood & Nutrition$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k60 grants · $170k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$3,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Meteorological Society$10,000
Americares$10,000
The Climate Foundation$10,000
Planned Parenthood$8,500
Town Hall Theater$5,000
The HALO Trust$5,000
Enviornmantal Defense Fund$5,000
The Vermont Community Foundation$4,500
Canines for Service$4,333
Fund for Global Human Rights$4,000
Charity Water$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Animal Welfare League$3,500
National Park Trust$3,500
Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation$3,500
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 (FY21–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Canines for Service: $5k → 12%Central Vermont Council on Aging: $2k → 9%Canines for Service: $5k → 12%Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center: $3k → 9%Canines for Service: $4k → 12%Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center: $2k → 9%Canines for Service: $3k → 12%Age Well: $1k → 10%Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center: $2k → 9%Canines for Service: $3k → 12%Atria Collective: $3k → 9%WomenSafe: $3k → 9%Fidelco Guide Dog Fdn: $2k → 11%Fidelco Guide Dog Fdn: $2k → 11%Fidelco Guide Dog Fdn: $2k → 11%Charity Water: $4k → 17%Charity Water: $4k → 17%Charity Water: $3k → 17%Charity Water: $3k → 17%Charity Water: $2k → 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

ME
VT
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$868k · 98 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

98 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
13

Total granted

$868k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+18%

Still filing today

64%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +50%
  • Canines for Service Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +89%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • CV
    Canadian Volunteer Fire Services Association
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • FW
    Firefighters Without Borders
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • CI
    Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

—
3
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
4
American Flood Coalition Inc

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

Environment
5
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
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—
7
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Inc; the most unlike its peers is Global Coral Reef Alliance 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

81 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. 81 of the 121 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
49/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Planned Parenthood: $27,208 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodFeeding America (was America's Second Harvest): $19,672 · OtherEnviornmantal Defense Fund: $19,019 · Other+67 more: $427,310 · Other+67 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $48,249 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATIO…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,876 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $18,675 · InternationalTHE HALO TRUST (USA)…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $17,119 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERN…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $12,550 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND F…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $12,550 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE P…ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $11,230 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGE…ONE ACRE FUND: $11,230 · InternationalONE ACRE FUNDFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $7,500 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $6,000 · International+2 more: $9,950 · International+2 moreAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $12,780 · EnvironmentAMAZON CO…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $11,229 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR…NATIONAL PARK TRUST INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL …GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE INC: $7,300 · EnvironmentGLOBAL CO…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN …EARTHJUSTICE: $6,719 · EnvironmentEARTHJUST…OARS INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentOARS INCMiddlebury Area Land Trust: $4,500 · EnvironmentMiddlebur…Pollinator Partnership: $3,740 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $3,740 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA INC: $3,740 · EnvironmentCINCINNATI RECYCLING AND REUSE HUB: $3,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,250 · EnvironmentAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $18,550 · AnimalsPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $9,130 · AnimalsWILDAID INC: $8,400 · AnimalsEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $8,400 · AnimalsLeague for Animal Welfare: $7,275 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $6,000 · AnimalsSTAND UP FOR ANIMALS: $5,900 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $4,500 · AnimalsLOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Animals+1 more: $500 · AnimalsCanines for Service Inc: $19,883 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $15,592 · Human ServicesPAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesATRIA COLLECTIVE INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $5,475 · Human Services+2 more: $2,833 · Human ServicesThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $21,680 · Science & TechClimate Foundation: $10,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Science & TechWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $17,250 · Arts & CultureTOWN HALL THEATER INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureRPM FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$493,209International$173,929Environment$78,998Animals$72,155Human Services$55,783Science & Tech$41,680Arts & Culture$32,250

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 budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $48,249 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $21,680 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCanines for Service Inc: $19,883 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,876 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $18,675 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $18,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $17,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $17,119 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $15,592 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $14,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $12,780 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $12,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $12,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $11,230 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $11,230 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $11,229 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC: $9,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $9,175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $9,130 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $8,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $8,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $8,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOWN HALL THEATER INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE INC: $7,300 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetLeague for Animal Welfare: $7,275 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $6,719 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $6,130 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND UP FOR ANIMALS: $5,900 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATRIA COLLECTIVE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLoaves and Fishes Ministries Inc: $5,475 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $5,475 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $5,292 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $5,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $5,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $5,025 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOARS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds Canines for Service Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Climate Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗

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 Vermont Community FoundationVT23.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Amica Companies Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Ashaway Charitable Trust · United Way of Addison County Inc · Horace a & S Ella Kimball Foundation · Forrest C & Frances H Lattner Foundation · Chelsea Groton 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 Fuller Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fuller Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Oars Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Atria Collective Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Council On Aging Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Age Well Inc: 60% of income from government
  • National Park Trust Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Vermont Center for Independent Living Inc: 29% of income from government
  • EcoHealth Alliance Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Town Hall Theater Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Vna & Hospice of the Southwest Region Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
  • American Meteorological Society: 5% of income from government
  • Middlebury Area Land Trust: 2% of income from government
  • Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
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 121 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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