Florida · 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.
- $101k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $13,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Foster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $99k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $73k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $73k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $67k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $58k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $46k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $36k | 32% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $33k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greens Farms Academy Inc | $71,430 | 8 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $37,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Yale University | $13,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $11,780 | 7 | 0% |
| Vero Beach Museum of Art Inc | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Yale University | $11,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Hopkins School Incorporated | $11,460 | 7 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $10,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Palm Beach Opera Inc | $8,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Hope for Families Center Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Foster Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The Foster Family Foundation
- How much does The Foster Family Foundation give?
- The Foster Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $101,365 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Foster Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (25%), Health (21%).
- Who are The Foster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greens Farms Academy Inc ($71k), President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($38k), Yale University ($13k).
- Does The Foster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Foster 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 Foster Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pd Charitable Trust, Indian River Community Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is The Foster Family Foundation based?
- The Foster Family Foundation is based in FL.
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