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Malcolm Fraser Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Malcolm Fraser Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Environment$621kEducation$274kAnimals$190kHealth$60kCivil Rights$40kPublic Benefit$13kCrime & Legal$10kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURRFECT PALS$9,000
SOUTH GEORGIA EQUINE RESCUE$5,248
NO KILL GLYNN COUNTY$2,030
NEW PATHS HORSE SANCTUARY$2,000
THE FARM AT OATLAND NORTH$1,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF S COASTAL GA$1,000
OKEFENOKEE SWAMP PARK$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ID STATE UNIV NW CTR FOR FLUUENCY: $5k → 13%FREE TO CHOOSE: $1k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN: $5k → 22%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%PANTHERA JAGUAR CORRIDOR INITIATIVE: $100k → 17%ACTA: $10k → 14%FIRST COAST NO MORE HOMELESS PETS: $5k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50k → 14%WILLIAM F BUCKLEY PROGRAM AT YALE U: $5k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $70k → 14%THE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $50k → 13%CENTER FOR A SUSTAINABLE COAST: $150k → 14%SOUTH GEORGIA EQUINE RESCUE: $5k → 16%OKEFENOKEE SWAMP PARK: $1k → 18%FRIENDS THE NATIONAL ASSCIAITION OF: $5k → 11%EASTERN WA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE: $30k → 16%PANATHARA: $10k → 17%NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLAINCE: $10k → 14%MAYO FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%WILLIAM F BUCKLEY PROGRAM AT YALE: $3k → 12%THE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $50k → 13%CENTER FOR A SUSTAINABLE COAST: $135k → 14%SSMP EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%MAYO FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR A SUSTAINABLE COAST: $30k → 14%SSMP EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLAINCE: $10k → 14%THE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $25k → 14%MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%NO KILL GLYNN COUNTY: $15k → 14%NO KILL GLYNN COUNTY: $10k → 14%NO KILL GLYNN COUNTY: $10k → 14%PURRFECT PALS: $9k → 14%NO KILL GLYNN COUNTY: $2k → 14%THE FARM AT OATLAND NORTH: $1k → 14%PURRFECT PALS: $15k → 14%PURRFECT PALS: $5k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY OF S COASTAL GA: $1k → 14%NEW PATHS HORSE SANCTUARY: $2k → 14%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

WA
ID
MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
TN
DC
GA
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$906k · 11 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$906k
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+22%

Still filing today

64%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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

  • GE
    GLYNN ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $180k · revenue +110% · 35% of their budget
  • TO
    THE ORIANNE SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +146%
  • AH
    ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $95k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • PJ
    PANTHERA JAGUAR CORRIDOR INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • Vanderbilt Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +65%
  • PC
    PANTHERA CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +22%
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
Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy Inc
Philanthropy
2
Nonhuman Rights Project Inc

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is the only civil rights organization in The United States dedicated solely to securing fundamental rights for nonhuman animals and the leading force in building a national and global nonhuman rights…

Animals
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
5
Animal Partisan Inc

Animal Partisan, Inc. is organized for the purposes of conducting legal advocacy on behalf of animals subjected to cruelty and exploitation.

Animals
6
Pinchot Institute for Conservation

The pinchot institute for conservation is a public benefit non-profit corporation. we are passionate about protecting nature and creating breakthroughs that result in more sustaianable ecosystems and economies. the institute is…

Environment
7
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
8
The Public Trust Environmental Legal Institute of Florida Inc

The Public Trust uses the law to protect the conservation lands waters trees wildlife and other imperiled natural resources of Northeast Florida.

Environment
9
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
10
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
11
Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.

Animals
12
International Primate Protection League

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Okefenokee Swamp Park Inc; the most unlike its peers is Farm at Oatland North. 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

17 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. 17 of the 31 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLYNN ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION INC: $180,000 · OtherGLYNN ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION INCPANTHERA JAGUAR CORRIDOR INITIATIVE: $100,000 · OtherPANTHERA JAGUAR CORRIDOR INITIATIVEMAYO FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATIONPURRFECT PALS: $29,000 · OtherPURRFECT PALSNEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLAINCE: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $60,000 · Other+12 moreCenter for Sustainable Coast: $315,000 · EnvironmentCenter for Sustainable CoastALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: $95,000 · EducationALEXANDER HAMILTON I…Vanderbilt University: $70,000 · EducationVanderbilt Universit…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 · EducationTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $125,000 · AnimalsTHE ORIANNE SOCI…NO KILL GLYNN COUNTY INC: $37,030 · AnimalsNO KILL GLYNN CO…PANTHERA CORPORATION: $10,000 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORA…+2 more: $10,248 · Animals+2 moreMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $12,500 · Public BenefitNew Civil Liberties Alliance: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFarm at Oatland North: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePacific Legal Foundation: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$464,000Environment$315,000Education$222,500Animals$182,278Public Benefit$12,500Arts & Culture$11,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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 budgetCenter for Sustainable Coast: $315,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetGLYNN ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION INC: $180,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetTHE ORIANNE SOCIETY: $125,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: $95,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetVanderbilt University: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO KILL GLYNN COUNTY INC: $37,030 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Civil Liberties Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH GEORGIA EQUINE RESCUE: $5,248 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFirst Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOKEFENOKEE SWAMP PARK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarm at Oatland North: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Malcolm Fraser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Malcolm Fraser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 31 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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