· Private foundation
The Forster-Connolly Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $920k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL - BSA | $297,052 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $275,000 |
| COMMUNITY RENEWAL | $250,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON | $250,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| NURTURING MINDS | $150,000 |
| WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY | $125,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $120,000 |
| SAMARITAN INNS | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $65,000 |
| THE ACADEMY OF HOLY CROSS | $60,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $50,000 |
| CYCLE CONNECT | $50,000 |
| CONCORD ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
- NMNURTURING MINDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $750k · revenue +91%
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $605k · revenue +313%
Funded once
- DBDON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $125k
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JACKSON HOLEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IVIGNATIAN VOLUNTEER CORPSone grant, 2022 · $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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 45 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 COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INNS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CYCLE CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS IN MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK & THRIFT STORE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM 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: The Forster Family Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic 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 Forster-Connolly 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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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