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The Falcon Fund Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$642k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEnvironment$555kEducation$377kReligion$251kInternational$245kYouth Development$100kFood & Nutrition$78kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON$450,000
Education For All Children$100,000
THE KESTREL TRUST$50,000
THE CHILDREN NEUROBLASTOMA CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
READ WORKS$15,000
THE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION INC$1,400
VOLUNTEERS FOR WILDLIFE$1,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $25k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $2k → 12%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
NE
FL

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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 9 repeat orgs$648k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$2.7M
$622k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+50%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • HN
    HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +551% · 59% of their budget
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN
    6× · 2017–2022 · $245k · revenue +112%
  • PP
    POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2019 · $200k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • SH
    ST HILDA'S & ST HUGHE'S
    one grant, 2018 · $251k
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Hudson
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • NP
    NEW PROFIT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -56%

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
Whole Child Collaborative

To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities

Education
2
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
3
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
4
CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
Bct Brooklyn Children's Theatre Inc

Brooklyn children's theatre empowers youth through musical theatre, reimagining arts education by centering the whole child and prioritizing belonging and equity.

Arts & Culture
7
King Center Charter School

The king center charter school partners with parents and the community to emphasize post-secondary preparation and planning for all of its students beginning at the earliest ages. the school seeks to create a caring, student-centered…

Education
8
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
9
Bronx Community Charter School

Bronx community charter school is a small learning community founded on the principles that children learn best when they are active participants in their own learning. our students raise questions about the world around them, engage with…

Education
10
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Partners in School Innovation

To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Readworksinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr21%30%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr21%26%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr12%60%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
11%
6,178/57,265

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INC — $1,431,650 · OtherHISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INCST HILDA'S & ST HUGHE'S — $251,000 · OtherST HILDA'S & ST HUGHE'SBoys & Girls Clubs of Hudson — $100,000 · Other+14 more — $239,632 · Other+14 moreKESTREL LAND TRUST INC — $550,000 · EnvironmentKESTREL LAND TRUST…POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $200,000 · EducationPOLY PREP …PREP FOR PREP — $50,000 · EducationPREP FOR P…READWORKSINC — $50,000 · EducationREADWORKSI…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN — $245,000 · InternationalAMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEW PROFIT INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S NEUROBLASTOMA CANCER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthCANCER CONNECTION INC — $5,000 · HealthTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION — $1,400 · Health
Other$2,022,282Environment$550,000Education$301,000International$245,000Arts & Culture$105,000Community Improvement$50,000Health$31,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INC — $1,431,650 over 6y, 59% of budgetKESTREL LAND TRUST INC — $550,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN — $245,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREADWORKSINC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC — $28,132 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S NEUROBLASTOMA CANCER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE LITERACY PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER CONNECTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER OF LONG ISLAND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION — $1,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN VALE SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Beveridge Family FoundationMA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Beveridge Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Select Equity Group Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · De la Cour Family Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

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 Falcon Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 54%
  • Safe Passage Inc55% of income from government
  • Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc55% of income from government
  • Friends of Children Inc54% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc3% of income from government
  • Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc1% of income from government
  • Historic Northampton Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Falcon Fund Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Falcon Fund Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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