· Private foundation
The Fair Ways Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Audubon International | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,471 |
| Meg Wah (My Earth) | $15,525 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,154 |
| The Land At Home Project Inc | $10,940 |
| Stone Harbor Golf Club | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake | $7,000 |
| Worksop Golf Club | $6,250 |
| Vicars Cross golf club Ltd | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 US giving — 68% of grant dollars ($557k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 32% that went abroad ($260k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your 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
Beyond the US — 32% of all-years giving ($260k)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
- CWCURRY WATERSHEDS NONPROFIT2× · 2021–2023 · $69k · revenue +5% · 28% of their budget
- MPMOHONK PRESERVE INC2× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +6%
- FOFRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- HCHILL CREST COUNTRY CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +32%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MUNI INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +3% · 37% of their budget
- OBOHIO BLUEBIRD SOCIETY INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Operate and maintain public golf course in the detroit lakes area; provide recreation for all ages
Golf club
Private golf and country club which provides dining, golf, and other social and recreational activities for its members.
Preservation, restoration,and protection of the heritage of the oldest golf club west of mississippi river and historic structures thereon, and promoting amateur golf through programs and events, including youth golf camps and lessons for…
Dedicated to working with land owners to protect conservation-worthy land and natural resources of southern wisconsin.
Operation of recreational golf facilities for members.
To promote social interaction and recreation for the benefit of its members.
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
To provide recreational opportunities to the public through the operation, maintenance and improvement of public facilities - including a par, golf course and driving range.
To manage, maintain and enhance the Camas Prairie Golf Park
Membership golf course
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evanston Wilmette Golf Course Association and the most unlike its peers is Land at Home Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 53 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 CURRY WATERSHEDS NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds MOHONK PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds HILL CREST COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MUNI INC ↗
- Who funds McHenry County Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AUDUBON SOCIETY OF NEW YORK STATE INC ↗
- Who funds CACTUS & PINE GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON WILMETTE GOLF COURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKS FOUNDATION OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Elcona Country Club Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCORD COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Land at Home Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED PROGRAM OF SE WISCONSIN ↗
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.
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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 The Fair Ways Foundation Inc 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.
- Curry Watersheds Nonprofit — 47% 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.