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The James L Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$458k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Philanthropy$525kReligion$32kEducation$29kCommunity Improvement$5kHealth$3kArts & Culture$2kRecreation & Sports$1kHuman Services$950Other$0
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k6 grants · $8k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$627
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Keelan Family Foundation$449,728
Arlington Area Renewal Project$5,000
Planned Parenthood$1,000
Pownal Rescue Squad$627
Individual grant recipient$627
VT Sheriffs Association$626
Vietnam Vets of America$250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOC: $250 → 9%Blinded Veterans Assoc: $250 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$574k · 11 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$574k
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+24%

Still filing today

64%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TK
    The Keelan Family Foundation
    3× · 2018–2020 · $525k · revenue +3% · 94% of their budget
  • TA
    THE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +16%
  • Williams College
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • I
    Initstime
    one grant, 2019 · $124k
  • WM
    Whitestone Ministry
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
2
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

Aacom leads and advocates for the osteopathic medical education community to improve the health of the public. aacom represents and advances the continuum of medical education by: supporting our member institutions as they educate the…

Education
3
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
4
Military Officers Association of America

Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. provide first-class service to our members. we are the leading voice on…

Public Benefit
5
Paralyzed Veterans of America New England Chapter

The new england chapter, paralyzed veterans of america is a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization and the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated solely for the benefit and representation of veterans with spinal…

6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Paralyzed Veterans of America Mountain States Chapter

The key objective of pva is to take those actions necessary to restore spinal cord injured or diseased veterans' bodies and life potentials as closely as is humanly possible to those americans not suffering spinal cord dysfunction. this is…

9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
11
American Medical Writers Association

To advance excellence in medical communication by providing educational resources and an inclusive professional community.

Arts & Culture
12
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Keelan Family 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Keelan Family Foundation — $525,228 · OtherThe Keelan Family FoundationInitstime — $124,252 · OtherInitstimeTHE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC — $26,250 · Other+16 more — $44,690 · Other+16 moreWilliams College — $1,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College — $950 · EducationCENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBattenkill Chorale Inc — $350 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF — $500 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $200 · HealthBLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION — $500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $100 · Human ServicesAGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC — $400 · EnvironmentYOUNG LIFE — $360 · Youth DevelopmentVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $150 · Public Benefit
Other$720,420Education$1,950Arts & Culture$1,350Health$700Human Services$600Environment$400Youth Development$360Public Benefit$150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Keelan Family Foundation — $525,228 over 3y, 94% of budgetTHE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC — $26,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPownal Rescue Squad — $627 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBattenkill Chorale Inc — $350 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds The Keelan Family Foundation
  • Who funds THE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC
  • Who funds Williams College
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College
  • Who funds Pownal Rescue Squad
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF
  • Who funds BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds Battenkill Chorale Inc
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Keelan Family FoundationVT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Keelan Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The James L Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Pownal Rescue Squad0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The James L Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The James L Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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