· 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.
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| CATHOLIC EXTENSION | $200,000 |
| STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| NUTURING MINDS | $150,000 |
| DON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY | $125,000 |
| SAMARITAN INNS | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| FAUQUIER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $60,000 |
| CITY KIDS | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JACKSON HOLE | $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 (FY21–25, $200k) 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $455k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAUSTIN COLLEGE4× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +8%
- NCNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +106%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE3× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +23%
- MUMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $215k · revenue +13%
- AOACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS INCone grant, 2021 · $60k
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.
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How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 52 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 AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INNS INC ↗
- Who funds Flint Hill School ↗
- Who funds M STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds CYCLE CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS IN MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds Knowledge Impact Network ↗
- Who funds TZEDEK DC INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Forster Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forster Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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