· Private foundation
The Robert S Fagan 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alzheimers Association | $2,000 |
| Water org | $1,000 |
| Building Futures | $1,000 |
| Panzi Foundation | $1,000 |
| 805 Docufund | $1,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte | $1,000 |
| The San Diego Foundation | $500 |
| Operation Surf | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Robert S Fagan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PFPANZI FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +108%
- WWATERORG4× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +57%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Nevada - Renoone grant, 2019 · $5k
- MLMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +52%
- SJSt Jude Childrens Researchone grant, 2024 · $500
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.
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.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
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To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
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The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
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The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PANZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds BUILDING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AVILA BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert S Fagan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert S Fagan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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