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The Fournier Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Fournier Family Charitable 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.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$286kHuman Services$184kHealth$71kHousing & Shelter$59kRecreation & Sports$48kPhilanthropy$45kArts & Culture$17kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$60,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF ONTARIO COUNTY$50,000
MARY CARIOLA CHILDRENS CENTER$20,000
NAZARETH UNIVERSITY$20,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$15,000
VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER$12,500
EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION$10,000
THE OAK HILL FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED WAY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
STRONG NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PLAY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SIGNAL 30 NYS TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND$5,000
PERSON CENTERED HOUSING OPTIONS INC$3,000
ROC LYRIC OPERA$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PENN STATE EQUESTRIAN TEAM: $10k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF ONTARIO COUNTY: $50k → 10%EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SIGNAL 30 NYS TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND: $5k → 14%CCA FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 11%MATER DEI PARISH: $10k → 14%PENN STATE THON: $8k → 16%EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PENN STATE THON: $5k → 16%EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PENN STATE THON: $5k → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $31k → 14%MARY CARIOLA CHILDRENS CENTER: $21k → 14%MARY CARIOLA CHILDRENS CENTER: $20k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $15k → 14%MARY CARIOLA CHILDRENS CENTER: $15k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $10k → 14%ROC LYRIC OPERA: $2k → 14%PERSON CENTERED HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $60k → 14%PERSON CENTERED HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $55k → 14%PERSON CENTERED HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER: $100k → 14%UNITED WAY: $15k → 14%UNITED WAY: $10k → 14%UNITED WAY: $10k → 14%UNITED WAY: $10k → 14%STRONG NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PLAY: $5k → 14%ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 14%VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 14%YMCA: $10k → 14%NAZARETH COLLEGE: $26k → 14%NAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%NAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%NAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER: $13k → 14%THE OAK HILL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CADDIE & LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $8k → 14%MCQUAID JESUIT: $5k → 14%MCQUAID JESUIT: $5k → 14%MCQUAID JESUIT: $5k → 14%MCQUAID JESUIT: $5k → 14%CADDIE & LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$626k · 12 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$626k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $165k · revenue +19%
  • NAZARETH UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +14%
  • MC
    MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $56k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENN STATE EQUESTRIAN TEAM
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rochester General College of Health Careers

The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.

Education
2
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
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
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
6
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Regional Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Upstate Golf Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Veterans Outreach Center Inc: $117,500 · OtherVeterans Outreach Center IncRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $56,250 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $55,900 · OtherMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INCUNITED WAY: $45,000 · OtherUNITED WAYIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · Other+6 more: $45,500 · Other+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $165,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $85,500 · EducationNAZARETH UNIVERSITYEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFAMILY PROMISE OF ONTARIO COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PR…PERSON CENTERED HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterPERSON CE…ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthOAK HILL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCCA FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentMEMPHREMAGOG COMMUNITY MARITIME INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentUPSTATE GOLF CHARITIES INC: $1,334 · Recreation & Sports
Other$357,650Education$285,500Housing & Shelter$59,000Health$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000Environment$8,500Recreation & Sports$1,334

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $165,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Outreach Center Inc: $117,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $85,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $55,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPERSON CENTERED HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCCA FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUPSTATE GOLF CHARITIES INC: $1,334 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEMPHREMAGOG COMMUNITY MARITIME INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

William & Sheila Kona…Esl Charitable Founda…Rochester Area Commun…Summers Foundation IncCharles J & Burton S …Greater Rochester Hea…Max and Marian Farash…United Way of Greater…Jeffery and Patricia …Erdle FoundationWaldron Rise Foundati…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…
William & Sheila Konar FoundationNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Summers Foundation Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Jeffery and Patricia Davis Family Foundation Inc · Erdle Foundation · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fournier Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fournier Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Memphremagog Community Maritime Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Fournier Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fournier Family Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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