· Private foundation
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.
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $355k · revenue +48%
- WSWAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +5%
- AAADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION3× · 2023–2025 · $207k · revenue +160%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -40%- OMONE MONTANAone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -101%
- BRBLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INCone 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.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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,…
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Yellowstone Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ONE MONTANA ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds AFFTA Fisheries Fund ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INATURALIST ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
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: 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
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.
How this is measured
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