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FENWICK FOUNDATION

FENWICK FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,323,366 to it, the largest being POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION ($281,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$780k
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$337k
19/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Fenwick Foundation does

Mission

The Fenwick Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity focused on improving life quality, health and wellbeing in ways that are not addressed or "below the radar." our programs focus on older adults, veterans, people with disabilities and caregivers in the washington, dc metro area (including the outer northern virginia counties), baltimore metro area and several other locations along the east coast.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Enriching lives- veterans: elderly & disabled therapeutic recreation activities: sporting, cultural, educational, social; in-house projects. (7,742 served)

    $235,548 spent
    33% of program spending
  2. Enriching lives- non-veterans: elderly, special needs therapeutic recreation activities: sporting, cultural, educational, social; in-house projects. (5,296 served)

    $97,242 spent
    14% of program spending
  3. Project adapt dental program (851 served)

    $335,338 spent$6,523 earned by the program
    47% of program spending
  4. Non-military caregiver support (371 served)fisher house and military caregiver support (784 served)

    $51,783 spent
    7% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $719,911.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($182k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2018 Revenue 138 ($252k) Expenses 167 ($233k) Net assets 122 ($108k)2019 Revenue 174 ($317k) Expenses 183 ($255k) Net assets 192 ($170k)2020 Revenue 117 ($212k) Expenses 142 ($199k) Net assets 207 ($184k)2021 Revenue 235 ($428k) Expenses 270 ($377k) Net assets 265 ($236k)2023 Revenue 344 ($627k) Expenses 417 ($582k) Net assets 336 ($298k)2024 Revenue 428 ($780k) Expenses 530 ($741k) Net assets 380 ($337k)
2017201820192020202120232024
Revenue (428)Expenses (530)Net assets (380)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $205k to $327k (+60%).

$118k
$116k
$176k
$205k
$327k
$422k
$355k
2017201820192020202120232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of FENWICK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’17
$19k
’18
$62k
’19
$14k
’20
$52k
’21
$45k
’23
$39k
’24
5.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Alexander Gorny

Executive director & secre

Board chair

Thomas Fonseca

President; chairman of boa

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201820192020202120232024
Listed101010101110
Joined·+0+2+0·+0
No longer listed·020·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $34k → $269k.

4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FENWICK FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

FENWICK FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

21%
largest funder
46%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 51% · 2019 22% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 36% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

43% of FENWICK FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

76% of FENWICK FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
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’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FENWICK FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FENWICK FOUNDATION

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In Virginia

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FENWICK FOUNDATION?
FENWICK FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,323,366 to it, the largest being POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION ($281,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FENWICK FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,323,366 in grants to FENWICK FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FENWICK FOUNDATION?
POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $281,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FENWICK FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing