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The Fullerton Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Fullerton Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$149k
Granted FY2020
29
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Environment$137kSocial Science$60kHuman Services$54kEducation$38kCommunity Improvement$21kInternational$15kPhilanthropy$15kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2020 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k24 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL INSTITUTE$50,000
SAVORY INSTITUTE$10,000
GEMMA MORAN UNITED FOUNDATION ADDRESS$10,000
THE CARBON UNDERGROUND$10,000
SAVORY INSTITUTE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
GREEN WAVE$5,000
SAVE THE SOUND$5,000
SAVE THE SOUND$5,000
YELLOW SCHOOL HOUSE$5,000
GREEN WAVE$5,000
NESS$2,600
ECOTRUST$2,500
HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION$2,500
RYE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $10k → 17%CAPITAL INSTITUTE: $50k → 9%SPARK MAKERSPACE NEW LONDON (HEATHER GANT): $5k → 9%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

ME
VT
MT
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
DC
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 16 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
17

Total granted

$172k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+34%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • SM
    ST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +71%
  • ST
    SAVE THE SOUND
    2× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +93%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • CI
    CAPITAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -35%
  • RO
    Real Organic Project Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +210%
  • WR
    WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -51%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
The Land Institute

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. by consulting nature as the source and measure of that membership, the land…

—
3
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont

The northeast organic farming association of vermont promotes organic practices to build an ecomnomically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.

Arts & Culture
6
Terraset

Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…

Environment
7
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
8
Rocky Mountain Institute

Transform the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.

—
9
Earth Innovation Institute

Earth innovation institute works to advance climate-friendly rural devlopement through innovative approaches to sustainable farming, forestry and fisheries in tropical regions around the world.

Philanthropy
10
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
11
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
12
Stockholm Environment Institute Us Inc

The center conducts research and engages with decision-makers and civil society on energy, water, and climate policy as well as on broader dimensions of development, sustainability, and equity. it builds capacity through training and…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawthorne Valley Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Women's Refugee Commission 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

23 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. 23 of the 44 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPITAL INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherCAPITAL INSTITUTEYELLOW SCHOOL HOUSE: $25,000 · OtherYELLOW SCHOOL HOUSENATURAL CAPITAL SOLUTIONS LEADING FOR WELLBEING: $17,000 · OtherNATURAL CAPITAL SOLUTIONS LEADING FOR WELLBEINGGREEN WAVE: $10,000 · OtherGREEN WAVEECOTRUST - 25TH ANNIVERSARY: $10,000 · OtherECOTRUST - 25TH ANNIVERSARYGEMMA MORAN UNITED FOUNDATION ADDRESS: $10,000 · OtherGEMMA MORAN UNITED FOUNDATION ADDRESSPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE TOWN OF RYE: $7,500 · Other+20 more: $45,350 · Other+20 moreSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INCSAVE THE SOUND: $15,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDTHE CARBON UNDERGROUND: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE CARBON UNDERGROUNDReal Organic Project Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentReal Organic Project IncNEW VENTURE FUND: $5,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDCAPITAL INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Human ServicesCAPITAL INSTITUTEWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S REFUGEE COM…Spark Makerspace Co: $5,000 · Human ServicesSpark Makerspace CoBowdoin College: $10,000 · EducationBowdoin C…GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $10,000 · EducationGREENWAVE…THE GARRISON INSTITUTE: $9,500 · EducationTHE GARRI…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY: $15,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE: $2,000 · Community ImprovementJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $3,000 · EmploymentHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · EmploymentNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$174,850Environment$80,000Human Services$65,000Education$30,500Community Improvement$17,000Employment$5,500Recreation & Sports$2,500

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 budgetCAPITAL INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY: $15,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBowdoin College: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARBON UNDERGROUND: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetReal Organic Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GARRISON INSTITUTE: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOTRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRYE FREE READING ROOM: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEAST Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri: $1,000 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.

Clif Family FoundationFoundation for the Ca…National Philanthropi…California Community …The Pfizer Foundation…Renaissance Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Clif Family FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clif Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · National Philanthropic Trust · California Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Fullerton Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fullerton Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Real Organic Project Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 44 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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