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The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund at a glance

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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.

$453k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$14MReligion$920kEducation$878kHealth$731kAnimals$261kEnvironment$183kSocial Science$170kInternational$158kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $177k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS$5,000
BATH & TENNIS HISTORIC BUILDING PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC$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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAVEN SHELTER AND SERVICES INC: $5k → 16%ST ANN'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $3k → 11%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 49 repeat orgs$977k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
52

Total granted

$17M
$912k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+11%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    7× · 2019–2025 · $13M · revenue +69%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $508k · revenue +19%
  • TS
    The Society of the Four Arts Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $341k · revenue +989%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS CHURCH- LAFAYETTE SQ
    one grant, 2024 · $125k
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +11%
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
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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2
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
3
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

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.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
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
6
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Maryland Institute

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.

Education
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
52/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Gallery of Art: $13,041,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art+16 more: $781,000 · Arts & Culture+16 morePROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $858,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPIS…MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC: $150,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS G…AMERICAN RED CROSS NATIONAL CAPITAL CHAPTER: $140,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CR…ST JOHNS CHURCH- LAFAYETTE SQ: $125,000 · OtherFEDERAL CITY COUNCIL: $106,500 · OtherMEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER MEDSTAR HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE: $85,000 · Other+53 more: $990,750 · Other+53 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $507,500 · EducationBAYLOR SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationGREEN HORIZON LAND TRUST INC: $50,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $40,000 · Education+9 more: $116,050 · EducationWILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL: $255,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,700 · AnimalsNATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $85,000 · HealthWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $75,000 · HealthWINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Health+5 more: $17,000 · HealthTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $100,000 · Social SciencePETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $60,000 · Social ScienceCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL: $30,000 · InternationalTHE MARATHON INITIATIVE: $7,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $5,000 · International
Arts & Culture$13,822,000Other$2,455,250Education$763,550Animals$260,700Health$192,000Social Science$160,000International$142,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Gallery of Art: $13,041,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $507,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $341,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL: $255,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $180,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERAL CITY COUNCIL: $106,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN HORIZON LAND TRUST INC: $50,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC COLONY HOUSE INC: $27,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetICIVICS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBATH & TENNIS HISTORIC BUILDING PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY EARTH INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFALLS CHURCH ARTS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIZZITORG: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARATHON INITIATIVE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDC PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GOOD: $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFixGeorgiaPets Inc: $5,700 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWOODLEY HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAVEN SHELTER AND SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDERMERE ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $3,000 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.

  • 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 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS ↗
  • Who funds WADSWORTH-SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GREEN HORIZON LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC COLONY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ICIVICS INC ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Thomas Rutherfoord Fo…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Lemon FoundationFrederick Henry & Dia…Diana Davis Spencer F…Vanguard Charitable E…American Gift FundMorgan Stanley Global…Community Foundation …
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC25× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lee and Juliet Folger Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 105 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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