· Private foundation
The Foster 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENS FARMS ACADEMY | $13,000 |
| FUND OF FRIENDS SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $8,500 |
| GOODSPEED OPERA COMPANY | $7,500 |
| THE FUND FOR YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| THE VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $3,000 |
| GRAND HARBOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM INC | $2,500 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $2,500 |
| THE FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $2,380 |
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 (FY20–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +40%- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +47%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART7× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2017 · $2k
- RTRIVERSIDE THEATRE INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -23%
- TYTHE YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - YALE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The vero beach museum of art foundation is committed to managing endowments and extending the reach and sustaining the work of the vero beach museum of art, the supported organization, by securing both current and future financial…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…
Our mission is to engage, educate and excite the community by collecting, exhibiting, and preserving works of art for the enjoyment of all. the museum of fine arts, st. petersburg, florida (mfa) is the cultural leader of our community. our…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vero Beach Opera Inc. 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.
22 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. 22 of the 52 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 GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND HARBOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH OPERA 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.
Open a dossier: Pd Charitable Trust · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foster 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% 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.