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The Fpe 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.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$181kHealth$63kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$132Religion$80Philanthropy$50Other$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
$250
Median grant
4
States reached
$841k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSITUTE$20,000
MIDDLESEX SCHOOL$11,013
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$10,000
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL$2,500
CONCORD ACADEMY$1,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$250
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$118
INTERNATIONAL OCD FOUNDATION$100
PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION$100
MOVEMBER FOUNDATION$50
THE PARK SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND$50
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $1k → 13%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DE
NC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$229k · 7 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$229k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+13%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +62%
  • PS
    PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +3%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +13%
  • JA
    Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +322%
  • CC
    CHORDS2CURE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $529 · revenue -100%
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
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
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc; the most unlike its peers is CHORDS2CURE Corporation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 26 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $50,000 · EducationPARK SCHOOL CORPORATIONTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $15,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $11,013 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHOOLCONCORD ACADEMY: $11,000 · EducationCONCORD ACADEMY+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $67,550 · OtherTHE PARK SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND+10 more: $3,047 · OtherDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $60,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institut…+5 more: $500 · HealthJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $132 · Youth DevelopmentHebrew Senior Life Inc: $50 · Philanthropy
Education$113,013Other$70,597Health$60,500Human Services$1,000Youth Development$132Philanthropy$50

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $11,013 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHORDS2CURE CORPORATION: $529 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Fpe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fpe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Fpe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fpe 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 26 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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