· Private foundation
The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $150,000 |
| ALIBI PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WADSWORTH SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GREEN HORIZON LAND TRUST | $35,000 |
| WILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $25,000 |
| FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL | $16,500 |
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST ALBANS SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FALLS CHURCH ARTS | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC COLONY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BATH & TENNIS HISTORIC BUILDING PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NGNational Gallery of Art7× · 2019–2025 · $13M · revenue +40%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $508k · revenue +19%- TSThe Society of the Four Arts Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $341k · revenue +989%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INCone grant, 2021 · $150k
- SJST JOHNS CHURCH- LAFAYETTE SQone grant, 2024 · $125k
- WHWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens and the most unlike its peers is The Windermere Island Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 105 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds WILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREEN HORIZON LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLONY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ICIVICS 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Lemon Foundation · Frederick Henry & Diana Prince Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc
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 Lee and Juliet Folger Fund 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.
- Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
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.