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The Fournier Family Foundation at a glance

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The Fournier 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.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$4.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.2MHealth$5.7MPhilanthropy$3.4MReligion$2.2MAnimals$2.1MInternational$519kSocial Science$215kCommunity Improvement$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $404k
  • $250k+1 grant · $4.4M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST BENEDICT'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL$4,422,377
ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES$100,000
LIBERTY CORNER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$100,000
DONORS TRUST$100,000
ANIMAL ALLIANCE$53,995
READ ALLIANCE$50,000
FOCUS FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS$40,000
MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE$30,000
PROJECT 292$1,000
HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD$1,000
PBA LOCAL 347$500
PBA LOCAL 139$300
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $684k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%LIFE CAMP: $73k → 4%American Red Cross: $100k → 14%Cornerstone Family Programs: $10k → 4%Covenant House: $500 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 52 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
77

Total granted

$17M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+39%

Still filing today

58%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • AH
    ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +28%
  • UI
    USONA INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
  • Vanderbilt University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $850k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • HB
    HEALING BREAKTHROUGH
    one grant, 2023 · $2.1M · 39% of their budget
  • M
    MAPS
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +64%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

—
11
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs; the most unlike its peers is Riverstyx Foundation. 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

75 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. 75 of the 137 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/75
Grantees still filing
56/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST BENEDICTS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $4,472,377 · OtherST BENEDICTS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCST BENEDICTS: $2,023,763 · OtherST BENEDICTSJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE: $2,000,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINEKIPP NEW JERSEY: $1,675,000 · OtherKIPP NEW JERSEYMAPS: $500,000 · Other+89 more: $3,531,975 · Other+89 moreHEALING BREAKTHROUGH: $2,075,186 · HealthHEALING BREAKTH…USONA INSTITUTE INC: $1,000,000 · HealthUSONA INSTITUTE…Foundation for Morristown Medical Center: $140,000 · Health+8 more: $93,200 · HealthASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC: $1,250,000 · AnimalsASSOCIATE…Humane World for Animals Inc: $590,000 · AnimalsHumane Wo…MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE: $91,000 · Animals+5 more: $101,015 · AnimalsVanderbilt University: $850,000 · EducationVanderbil…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $400,000 · EducationTrustees …WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $400,000 · EducationWENTWORTH…TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES …+9 more: $201,120 · Education+9 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust Inc: $200,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $55,000 · PhilanthropyEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Human ServicesLIFE CAMP INC: $125,450 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,500 · Human ServicesGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $200,000 · Community Improvement
Other$14,203,115Health$3,308,386Animals$2,032,015Education$2,001,120Philanthropy$1,455,000Human Services$735,950Community Improvement$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEALING BREAKTHROUGH: $2,075,186 over 1y, 39% of budgetASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC: $1,250,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSONA INSTITUTE INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $850,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $590,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC: $377,075 over 4y, 15% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $215,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDonors Trust Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PECK SCHOOL: $165,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAHA FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $140,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLIFE CAMP INC: $125,450 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE: $91,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY IN CRISIS INC: $70,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetANIMAL ALLIANCE INC: $64,795 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $58,645 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREAD ALLIANCE INC: $52,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $33,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNEWARK MENTORING MOVEMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetRIVERSTYX FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMIDLAND FOUNDATION: $20,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRAWHIDE RESCUE INC: $18,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SOMERSET HILLS INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PHILIP'S NEWARK INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSUNLIGHT POLICY CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $11,220 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PINGRY CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $8,375 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds HEALING BREAKTHROUGH ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED HUMANE SOCIETIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds USONA INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PECK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds LIFE CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY IN CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC ↗
  • Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The McJ Amelior Found…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Healey Family Foundat…Verizon FoundationThe Risor FoundationEj Grassmann TrustThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Columbia Bank Foundat…Bristol-Myers Squibb …
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ31.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The McJ Amelior Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Healey Family Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Risor Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Community in Crisis Inc: 56% of income from government
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Aha Foundation Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Life Camp Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs: 3% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fournier Family 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 137 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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