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Hope Foundation co Philip M Francoeur Jr Trustee

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$799k
Granted FY2018
4
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$752k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Philanthropy$1.5MEmployment$785kHealth$38kReligion$12kHousing & Shelter$9kInternational$8kEducation$7kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2018 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
  • $250k+1 grant · $752k
$26,164
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fairfield Community Foundation$751,820
Fairfield Community Foundation$26,164
BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Fran$10,475
BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Mimu$10,475
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Mimu: $754k → 16%Planned Parenthood Marmonte: $7k → 8%American Humalayan Foundation: $2k → 10%Interim Inc: $5k → 12%Brain Behavior Research Foundtion: $17k → 6%Colgate University: $1k → 11%Planned Parenthood of Federation of: $3k → 17%The Salvation Army: $2k → 10%Connecticut College: $2k → 9%Fairfield Community Foundation: $752k → 9%Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation: $1k → 12%Homes with Hope: $5k → 19%NAMI: $6k → 7%BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Fran: $754k → 16%Food Bank for Monterey County: $5k → 12%Doctor Without Borders USA: $6k → 17%Planned Parenthood of Collier Count: $2k → 10%Fairfield Community Foundation: $26k → 9%BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Fran: $10k → 16%St Matthews House: $4k → 10%Westport Public Library: $1k → 9%BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Mimu: $10k → 16%Trinity Church: $12k → 10%Fairfield Community Foundation: $7k → 9%BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Mimu: $7k → 16%Blue Gavel Scholarship Fund: $1k → 10%A Better Chance of Westport: $1k → 9%BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Fran: $7k → 16%The Tumaini Fund USA: $925 → 10%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 33% of Hope Foundation co Philip M Francoeur Jr Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Hope Foundation co Philip M Francoeur Jr Trusteelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 3 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
21

Total granted

$2.3M
$86k

Still filing today

0%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FC
    Fairfield Community Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $785k
  • BC
    BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Mimu
    2× · 2017–2018 · $772k
  • BC
    BOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Fran
    2× · 2017–2018 · $772k

Funded once

  • BB
    Brain Behavior Research Foundtion
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • TC
    TRINITY CHURCH INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +37%

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
3
Mount Marty University

Mount marty university, an academic community in the catholic benedictine liberal arts tradition, prepares students for a contemporary world of work, service to the human community, and personal growth. the institution is a private,…

Education
4
Saint Martin's University

Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
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
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nami National. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Fairfield Community Foundation — $785,203 · OtherFairfield Community FoundationBOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Mimu — $772,027 · OtherBOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - MimuBOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Fran — $771,997 · OtherBOA Charitable Gift Donor Ad - Fran+10 more — $55,750 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $7,000 · HealthNAMI National — $5,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,000 · HealthST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $1,000 · EducationBig Sur Land Trust — $3,000 · EnvironmentThe American Himalayan Foundation — $1,500 · InternationalTUMAINI FUND USA INC — $925 · InternationalA BETTER CHANCE OF WESTPORT INC — $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,384,977Health$15,500Housing & Shelter$4,000Education$4,000Environment$3,000International$2,425Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME WITH HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERIM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE OF WESTPORT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTUMAINI FUND USA INC — $925 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hope Foundation co Philip M Francoeur Jr Trustee 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Connecticut College0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 24 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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