· Private foundation
The Fortive 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–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $356k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $356,250 |
| ANITA BORG INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY NA US | $200,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | $200,000 |
| CODEORG | $200,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $100,000 |
| HOUSING HOPE | $50,000 |
| BRAZIL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WATERAID AMERICA INC | $25,000 |
| GLOBALGIVING | $10,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $806k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Fortive Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2021–2024 · $806k · revenue +27%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +35%
Feeding America3× · 2020–2023 · $375k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- DRDirect Relief - Covid-19 - Globalone grant, 2020 · $100k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -1%
- AIAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA INCone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
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Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Technoserve's mission is to fight poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bladen We Care 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 39 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CODEORG ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ANITA BORG INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HOPE ↗
- Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Snohomish County ↗
- Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVE Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TECHSOUP GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds CATALYST INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC ↗
- Who funds BLADEN WE CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boost the Boro Inc ↗
- Who funds BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Fortive 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.
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation — 100% of income from government
- 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.