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The Forster Family 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$6.5MReligion$2.0MYouth Development$1.2MFood & Nutrition$749kArts & Culture$495kHousing & Shelter$365kInternational$250kCommunity Improvement$250kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $900k
$75,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTIN COLLEGE$500,000
ARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL$400,000
CATHOLIC EXTENSION$200,000
ELIZABETH SETON HIGH SCHOOL$150,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JACKSON HOLE$150,000
VIENNA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$150,000
AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM$100,000
EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$75,000
IONA HOUSE$75,000
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF LEEDS PARISH$55,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$50,000
FAUQUIER COUNTY FOOD BANK$30,000
THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC$25,000
THE METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$25,000
THE POTOMAC SCHOOL$15,000
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 (FY21–21, $100k) 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.

area typical 9%SAMARITAN INNS: $100k → 14%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
WY
IN
NJ
VA
MD
DC
LA
TX

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 32 repeat orgs$930k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
13

Total granted

$11M
$855k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+23%

Still filing today

56%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AC
    AUSTIN COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +8%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +106%
  • TP
    The Potomac School
    5× · 2020–2024 · $360k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • CR
    COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +23%
  • MU
    MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $215k · revenue +13%
  • SI
    SAMARITAN INNS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +30%

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
Boston Architectural College

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

2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
Augustana College

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…

Education
9
Furman University

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.

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
12
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin College and the most unlike its peers is Ceca 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 60 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%83%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,526

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

28 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. 28 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL — $1,375,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOLNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,072,496 · OtherNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAELIZABETH SETON HIGH SCHOOL — $950,000 · OtherELIZABETH SETON HIGH SCHOOLVIENNA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $800,000 · OtherVIENNA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON — $660,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTONCATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY OF US OF AMER — $646,720 · OtherCATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY OF US OF AMERDON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGHSCHOOL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC — $375,000 · OtherIONA HOUSE — $265,000 · Other+19 more — $1,507,000 · Other+19 moreAUSTIN COLLEGE — $1,500,000 · EducationAUSTIN COLLEGEThe Potomac School — $360,000 · EducationThe Potomac SchoolTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $218,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYM STREET CENTER — $175,000 · EducationM STREET CENTERFlint Hill School — $165,000 · EducationCONCORD ACADEMY — $150,000 · EducationAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION — $150,000 · EducationMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED — $150,000 · Education+1 more — $75,000 · EducationAMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INC — $350,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS IN MIDDLEBURG — $85,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC — $250,000 · Community ImprovementSAMARITAN INNS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesKnowledge Impact Network — $100,000 · Human ServicesGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCYCLE CONNECT INC — $110,000 · International
Other$7,651,216Education$3,243,000Arts & Culture$495,000Community Improvement$250,000Human Services$200,000Philanthropy$175,000International$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE — $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,072,496 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetThe Potomac School — $360,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INC — $350,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC — $250,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $218,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $215,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetM STREET CENTER — $175,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFlint Hill School — $165,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCYCLE CONNECT INC — $110,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSAMARITAN INNS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKnowledge Impact Network — $100,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetARTISTS IN MIDDLEBURG — $85,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetHOLY CROSS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTZEDEK DC INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe International Foundation — $40,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCECA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $10,000 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.

  • Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE
  • Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds The Potomac School
  • Who funds AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds M STREET CENTER
  • Who funds Flint Hill School
  • Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY
  • Who funds APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION
  • Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED
  • Who funds CYCLE CONNECT INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN INNS INC
  • Who funds Knowledge Impact Network
  • Who funds ARTISTS IN MIDDLEBURG
  • Who funds HOLY CROSS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TZEDEK DC INC
  • Who funds THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC
  • Who funds The International Foundation
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION 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.

The Forster-Connolly FoundationVA43.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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How do I get to The Forster Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Forster Family 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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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