· Private foundation
The Forster-Connolly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL - BSA | $374,232 |
| COMMUNITY RENEWAL | $250,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON | $200,000 |
| APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION | $175,000 |
| VIENNA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $150,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JACKSON HOLE | $150,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $120,000 |
| IONA HOUSE | $75,000 |
| THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF LEEDS PARISH | $65,000 |
| THE ACADEMY OF HOLY CROSS | $60,000 |
| THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON | $50,000 |
| CYCLE CONNECT | $50,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $50,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · 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
- FCFAUQUIER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK & THRIFT STOREone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +1%
- IVIGNATIAN VOLUNTEER CORPSone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 49 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 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 APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CYCLE CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS IN MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Forster-Connolly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forster-Connolly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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