· Private foundation
Mindy and Thaddeus Fortin Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $456k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILAD | $200,000 |
| THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL | $156,485 |
| WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST | $50,000 |
| ITHACA COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| KESHER ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $22,860 |
| THE BARNES FOUNDATION | $22,831 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $20,000 |
| CAMPHILL SOLTAINE | $15,000 |
| JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE | $14,500 |
| FIRST UP | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY HILL SYNAGOGUE | $6,232 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATE | $5,000 |
| PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $3,600 |
| MOVING TRADITIONS | $1,800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HSHAVERFORD SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $670k · revenue +17%
- JHJEVS HUMAN SERVICES4× · 2018–2021 · $101k · revenue +50%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TTTHE TERRI LYNNE LOKOFF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +40%
- TLTERI LYNNE LOHOFF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- GPGREATER PHILLY HILLEL NETWORK INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
Our vision is a flourishing jewish community where everyone feels included, supported and inspired. in order to accomplish this vision we cultivate resources, connect people and collaborate across the community to live and fulfill jewish…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The pardes jewish day school prepares students to become outstanding members of society through a rigorous secular and judaic education, a nurturing community, and a foundation in reform judaism that welcomes all jewish traditions.
The mission of penn hillel is to identify and prioritize the important issues and needs of our local and global community, then organize and mobilize human and financial resources to successfully impact them. penn hillel focuses on jewish…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philly Hillel Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
43 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. 43 of the 72 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL SOLTANE ↗
- Who funds FIRST UP ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TERRI LYNNE LOKOFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILLY HILLEL NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHALLAH FOR HUNGER ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
- Who funds TRIBE 12 ↗
- Who funds HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lasko Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Specter Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Kaplan Family Foundation · Beatty Helen D Groome Uw · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable
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 Mindy and Thaddeus Fortin Family Foundation 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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.
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