Virginia · Private foundation
The Forster Family 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.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Forster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $2.4M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $2.0M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $2.5M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $2.1M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $2.6M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin College | $2,000,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Archbishop Carroll High School | $1,375,000 | 3 | n/a |
| National Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America | $1,072,496 | 4 | 4% |
| Elizabeth Seton High School | $950,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | $846,720 | 6 | n/a |
| Vienna Presbyterian Church | $800,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Don Bosco Cristo Rey Highschool of the Archdiocese of Washington Inc | $525,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston College | $500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Precision Museum Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 14% |
| The Potomac School | $385,000 | 6 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin College | $2,000,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Archbishop Carroll High School | $1,375,000 | 3 | n/a |
| National Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America | $1,072,496 | 4 | 4% |
| Elizabeth Seton High School | $950,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | $846,720 | 6 | n/a |
| Vienna Presbyterian Church | $800,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Don Bosco Cristo Rey Highschool of the Archdiocese of Washington Inc | $525,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston College | $500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Precision Museum Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 14% |
| The Potomac School | $385,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Grand Teton National Park Foundation | $275,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole | $250,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Community Renewal International Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $218,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marymount University | $215,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan Inns Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Flint Hill School | $190,000 | 5 | 0% |
| M Street Center | $175,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Evergreen Christian School | $175,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Meadowbrook School of Weston Incorporated | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nurturing Minds Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Concord Academy | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Appletree Institute for Education Innovation | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| City Kids Inc | $135,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cycle Connect Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Artists in Middleburg | $110,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Knowledge Impact Network | $100,000 | 2 | 32% |
| Tzedek DC Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| San Miguel School Inc | $100,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Holy Trinity Catholic Church | $95,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Holy Cross Health Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Fellowship Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Father McKenna Center Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Metropolitan Club Preservation Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Academy of the Holy Cross Inc | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The International Foundation | $40,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Jesuit Refugee Service USA | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for the Arts | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Gallery of Art | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ceca Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Forster Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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-Connolly Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Shepherd Foundation Ltd · Ibm International Foundation · The James M Johnston Trust for Char & Educ Purposes · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Forster Family Foundation
- How much does The Forster Family Foundation give?
- The Forster Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $2,435,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Forster Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Religion (17%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are The Forster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Austin College ($2.0M), Archbishop Carroll High School ($1.4M), National Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America ($1.1M).
- Does The Forster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Forster Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Forster Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Forster-Connolly Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation.
- Where is The Forster Family Foundation based?
- The Forster Family Foundation is based in VA.
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