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The Fourten 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.1M
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

56% of The Fourten Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’22
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’23
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.5MEnvironment$992kEducation$410kPublic Benefit$355kPublic Safety & Disaster$305kHealth$200kInternational$120kRecreation & Sports$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $777k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$1,067,000
THE REASON FOUNDATION$135,000
WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC$100,000
GLENWOOD PARK TRUST$100,000
ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION$82,000
PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER (PERC)$60,000
PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
YELLOWSTONE FOREVER$50,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY$50,000
NORTH YELLOWSTONE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
TOOTHPICK PROJECT$50,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$50,000
CLIFTON INSTITUTE$25,000
BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST$25,000
INATURALIST$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 19% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TOOTHPICK PROJECT: $70k → 10%PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%THE REASON FOUNDATION: $135k → 14%BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM: $30k → 14%THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 14%BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST: $25k → 15%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1.2M → 7%WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC: $100k → 6%BILL OF RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $20k → 7%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $50k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY: $100k → 19%YELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $50k → 10%PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%THE REASON FOUNDATION: $120k → 14%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1.1M → 7%WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC: $75k → 6%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $50k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY: $50k → 19%TOOTHPICK PROJECT: $50k → 10%PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%THE REASON FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1.1M → 7%WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC: $75k → 6%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY: $50k → 19%ONE MONTANA: $30k → 10%PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $5k → 6%AFFTA FISHERIES FUND: $30k → 10%PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $300k → 14%CLIFTON INSTITUTE: $25k → 6%GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $20k → 10%NORTH YELLOWSTONE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $20k → 10%NORTH YELLOWSTONE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $14k → 10%NORTH YELLOWSTONE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%ONE MONTANA: $10k → 10%GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $6k → 10%PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER (PERC): $60k → 10%PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER (PERC): $50k → 10%PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER (PERC): $40k → 10%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

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NY
RI
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 64% of The Fourten Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Fourten Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 12 repeat orgs$660k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -40% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$2.0M
$445k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
-40%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • TR
    THE REASON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $355k · revenue +48%
  • WS
    WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +5%
  • AA
    ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $207k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -40%
  • OM
    ONE MONTANA
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -101%
  • BR
    BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -58%
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.

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Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
4
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
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Natural Resources Foundation of

To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.

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Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
7
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
8
Glacier National Park Conservancy

The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.

Recreation & Sports
9
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
10
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
11
Sustainable Conservation Inc

Sustainable conservation, inc works with the conservation fund, a nonprofit corporation, to create partnerships with the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to protect the outdoor heritage of the united states.

Environment
12
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Affta Fisheries Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $3,367,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAMPARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $180,000 · PhilanthropyJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY: $200,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UN…NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FO…TOOTHPICK PROJECT: $120,000 · OtherTOOTHPICK PROJEC…GLENWOOD PARK TRUST: $100,000 · OtherGLENWOOD PARK TR…SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $100,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRON…ONE MONTANA: $40,000 · OtherMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Other+7 more: $135,000 · Other+7 moreTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $355,000 · EducationTHE REASON …WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC: $250,000 · EducationWAKEFIELD S…ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION: $207,000 · EnvironmentADVENTURE…YELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $190,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTO…GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $59,500 · EnvironmentGALLATIN …BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentBLACK ROC…AFFTA Fisheries Fund: $30,000 · EnvironmentAFFTA Fis…INATURALIST: $25,000 · EnvironmentWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $300,000 · InternationalNorth Yellowstone Education Foundation: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $150,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$3,547,000Other$880,000Education$605,000Environment$541,500International$300,000Youth Development$160,000Public Benefit$150,000

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 budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $3,367,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $355,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION: $207,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $190,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNorth Yellowstone Education Foundation: $160,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $59,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetONE MONTANA: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAFFTA Fisheries Fund: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBill of Rights Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Donors Trust IncVA21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · George L Ohrstrom Foundation · Wise Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Fourten Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Fourten 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 27 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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