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The John & Christine Fitzgibbons Foundation at a glance

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The John & Christine Fitzgibbons 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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$2.5MEducation$1.8MHealth$264kInternational$86kHuman Services$54kRecreation & Sports$14kEnvironment$12kReligion$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILTON ACADEMY$50,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$10,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$5,000
WARM CENTER$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $5k → 9%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 17%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

NH
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
OK
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 19 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
20

Total granted

$2.7M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+27%

Still filing today

63%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MILTON ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    6× · 2019–2025 · $215k · revenue +5%
  • KS
    KING SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • ST
    STEPS TO SUCCESS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +90%
  • CC
    CHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • HC
    HARVARD CATHOLIC CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
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
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
9
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is King School Inc; the most unlike its peers is East Beach Association. 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

27 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. 27 of the 40 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,530,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeMILTON ACADEMY: $1,070,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMYThe Trustees of Princeton University: $215,417 · EducationKING SCHOOL INC: $200,000 · Education+6 more: $228,250 · Education+6 morePRINCETON ANNUAL FUND: $510,000 · OtherPRINCETON ANNUAL…LAWRENCE HOSPITAL CENTER: $65,500 · OtherLAWRENCE HOSPITA…MAINSPRINGS JANADA BATCHELOR FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 · OtherMAINSPRINGS JANA…PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ANNUAL FUND: $50,000 · OtherPHILLIPS EXETER …+16 more: $92,750 · Other+16 moreCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $191,100 · Health+3 more: $7,000 · HealthGRAHAM WINDHAM: $40,000 · Human ServicesDESTINATION COLLEGE: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $20,500 · InternationalTHE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyScenic Hudson Inc: $11,000 · EnvironmentWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Environment
Education$4,243,667Other$768,250Health$198,100Human Services$45,000International$20,500Philanthropy$15,000Environment$12,000

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,530,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $1,070,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $215,417 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKING SCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $191,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $91,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $81,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $9,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESTINATION COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BRONXVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE & HEROES CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Beach Association: $250 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Citizens Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…American Express Foun…T Rowe Price Program …The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Express Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 John & Christine Fitzgibbons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John & Christine Fitzgibbons Foundation. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Steps to Success Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 40 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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