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Fund for Individual Potential

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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$16MHealth$5.0MArts & Culture$454kHuman Services$450kRecreation & Sports$440kFood & Nutrition$330kHousing & Shelter$300kReligion$266kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$2,325,000
BREWSTER ACADEMY$1,000,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$100,000
HABCORE$100,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE$50,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM$50,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF NYC$40,550
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE$25,000
THE ALLEN STEVENSON SCHOOL$25,000
RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST$25,000
HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES$25,000
LUNCH BREAK$25,000
RIVERDALE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$25,000
LIFE MINISTRIES FOOD PANTRY$10,000
END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER WOLFEBORO CHAPTER$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $500k → 11%CHALLANGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $1.0M → 10%LUNCH BREAK: $55k → 6%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $2.6M → 9%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $300k → 11%HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $500k → 10%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $2.1M → 9%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $250k → 11%HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $250k → 10%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $1.8M → 9%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $200k → 11%HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $100k → 10%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $1.5M → 9%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $200k → 11%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $1.4M → 9%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $100k → 11%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $1.1M → 9%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $100k → 11%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $1.0M → 9%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $415k → 9%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $251k → 9%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $2.3M → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $100k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $100k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $100k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $100k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $100k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $100k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%TEMPLTE BETH MIRIAM: $100k → 6%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%UNTERBERG CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 6%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $100k → 17%TEMPLE BETH MIRIAM: $100k → 6%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $100k → 17%MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUDATION: $100k → 6%HABCORE: $100k → 6%HABCORE: $100k → 6%HABCORE: $100k → 6%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 21 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$23M
$475k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+74%

Still filing today

71%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BA
    Brewster Academy
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +34%
  • HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +67%
  • LC
    LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHALLANGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • UC
    UNTERBERG CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
4
Russell Sage College

To cultivate, inspire, and transform our students in a nurturing, yet challenging, educational environment to become the managers and leaders organizations need right now.

Education
5
Gilman School Incorporated

Gilman school is a diverse community dedicated to educating boys in mind, body and spirit through particular emphasis upon academic excellence, athletic participation and aesthetic appreciation. gilman seeks to produce men of character and…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

—
8
Millbrook School

In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.

Education
9
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
12
Ranney School

Ranney school's mission is to see each student mature with character, confidence and courage. upon graduation, ranney students become tomorrow's leaders, distinguished by their intelligence, ability, social conscience and character. it is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Allen-Stevenson School; the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. 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

18 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. 18 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Brewster Academy: $12,178,774 · EducationBrewster AcademyHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $1,975,000 · EducationHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGESLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $1,700,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGE+3 more: $415,000 · EducationMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,350,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN K…JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $450,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & …HABCORE INC: $300,000 · OtherHABCORE INCTEMPLE EMANU-EL OF NYC: $240,550 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-EL …THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $225,000 · OtherTHE ALLEN-STEVEN…RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST: $225,000 · OtherRISING TREETOPS …Individual grant recipient: $155,000 · Other+14 more: $555,332 · Other+14 moreNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $3,125,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYT…MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 · HealthMONMOUTH MEDICAL…+2 more: $2,015 · HealthWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $450,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureLUNCH BREAK INC: $290,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$16,268,774Other$3,500,882Health$3,452,015Arts & Culture$453,500Food & Nutrition$290,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrewster Academy: $12,178,774 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $3,125,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $1,975,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $1,700,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $450,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHABCORE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLUNCH BREAK INC: $290,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $225,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST: $225,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $225,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRFH HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetCPC Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,015 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds Brewster Academy ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HABCORE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST ↗
  • Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds RFH HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RUMSON BOAT RACE INC ↗
  • Who funds CPC Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS ↗
  • Who funds COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 Jay and Linda Gru…Oceanfirst FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Clare and Robert Gray…New Jersey Natural Ga…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundThe Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin FoundationNJ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Clare and Robert Gray Charitable Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Fund for Individual Potential funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fund for Individual Potential. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Habcore Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Lunch Break Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Count Basie Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Fund for Individual Potential 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 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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