How much does The Fanwood Foundation give?

The Fanwood Foundation reported 203 grants totaling $599,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 208 and 212 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Fanwood Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (25%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (14%).

Who are The Fanwood Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Trustees of Princeton University ($181k), Scoa Inc ($135k), New York Foundation for the Arts Inc ($117k).

Does The Fanwood Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Fanwood Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Fanwood Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The High Stakes Foundation, Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark.

Where is The Fanwood Foundation based?

The Fanwood Foundation is based in NY.

The Fanwood Foundation

The Fanwood Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Fanwood Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$600k

Granted FY2024still arriving

203

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$37k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$728kArts & Culture$645kHealth$411kEducation$317kAnimals$230kInternational$132kFood & Nutrition$88kPhilanthropy$65kOther$0

02FY2024 · 203 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k193 grants · $408k
$10k–50k10 grants · $192k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY	$36,500
SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER	$30,000
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS	$20,000
WORKS AND PROCESS (GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM)	$20,000
THE ROGOSIN INSTITUTE	$20,000
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART	$20,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE	$15,000
MAYO CLINIC	$10,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER	$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$10,000
SCOTTISH RITE LANGUAGE CLINIC	$8,000
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM	$7,500
CRESCENT AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$7,500
WEST POINT FUND	$7,500
INSTITUTE FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS	$7,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 233 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

233 repeat relationships: 190 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

233

Total granted

$2.6M

$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+42%

Still filing today

61%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther

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

NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $117k · revenue +127%
LA
LAKE AGAWAM CONSERVANCY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +8%
TR
The Rogosin Institute Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +8%

Funded once

SA
SOUTHHAMPTON ARTS CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $45k
WA
WORKS AND PROCESS (GUGGENHEIM)
one grant, 2023 · $31k
PU
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM (NEW BUILDING)
one grant, 2020 · $25k

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.

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals

Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified

Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment

Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment

Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals

Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Montana Pro Rodeo Hall and Wall of Fame. 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

164 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. 164 of the 325 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

164/164

Grantees still filing

127/164

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,396,900Environment$416,900Arts & Culture$311,600Education$220,050Health$153,500International$142,800Human Services$108,400

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

PatagoniaorgCA41.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The High Stakes Foundation · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · The Kendeda Fund · Merlin Foundation Inc · Maki Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Treacy Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund

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 The Fanwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fanwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

36report 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.

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How do I get to The Fanwood Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fanwood 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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