· Private foundation
The Fair Ways Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 32% of all-years giving ($260k)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- CPCACTUS & PINE GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +69%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MUNI INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +3% · 37% of their budget
- HCHILL CREST COUNTRY CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +32%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
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 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CURRY WATERSHEDS NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds MOHONK PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds CACTUS & PINE GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MUNI INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUDUBON SOCIETY OF NEW YORK STATE INC ↗
- Who funds HILL CREST COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds McHenry County Conservation Foundation ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fair Ways Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fair Ways Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Curry Watersheds Nonprofit: 47% of income from government
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