Funding search · EIN 541902260 · Chantilly, VA

The Betty and Wes Foster

Name: The Betty and Wes Foster grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

173
grants reported: $2.3M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Americares4 grants · $350,000
The Arc3 grants · $250,000
Bishop Walker School4 grants · $200,000
Beloved Asheville3 grants · $114,000
Capital Area Food Bank4 grants · $107,000
Doctors Without Borders4 grants · $100,000
Sustainable Harvest International3 grants · $90,000
Save the Sound4 grants · $88,000
Sustainable Villages Honduras2 grants · $60,000
1 Uphandles1 grant · $60,000

Giving over time

$570,500

2022

$518,500

2023

$601,500

2024

$614,500

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 173 grants.

$150,000
The Arc · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$125,000
Americares · Stamford, CT · 2022
General purpose
$75,000
Americares · Stamford, CT · 2025
General purpose
$75,000
Americares · Stamford, CT · 2024
General purpose
$75,000
Americares · Stamford, CT · 2023
General purpose
$60,000
1 Uphandles · Silver Spring, MD · 2025
General purpose
$60,000
Blackwater Bicycle Association · Davis, WV · 2025
General purpose
$52,000
Beloved Asheville · Asheville, NC · 2024
General purpose
$50,000
Bishop Walker School · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$50,000
Bishop Walker School · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$50,000
Manna Food Bank · Asheville, NC · 2024
General purpose
$50,000
Salvation Army - Disaster Relief · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General purpose
$50,000
The Arc · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$50,000
Bishop Walker School · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Climate Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
The Arc · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Bishop Walker School · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$42,000
Beloved Asheville · Asheville, NC · 2022
General purpose
$40,000
Civic Nation · Carol Stream, IL · 2024
General purpose
$35,000
The Arc - Building Bridges Across the River - Unrestricted · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$30,000
Capital Area Food Bank · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$30,000
Sustainable Harvest International · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$30,000
Sustainable Harvest International · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$30,000
Sustainable Harvest International · Boston, MA · 2023
General purpose
$30,000
Sustainable Villages Honduras · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$30,000
Sustainable Harvest Int'L · Boston, MA · 2022
General purpose
$30,000
Sustainable Villages Honduras · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$29,000
Capital Area Food Bank · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$29,000
Capital Area Food Bank · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$28,000
Save the Sound · New Haven, CT · 2022
General purpose
$25,000
Doctors Without Borders · Hagerstown, MD · 2025
General purpose
$25,000
Doctors Without Borders · Hagerstown, MD · 2024
General purpose
$25,000
Doctors Without Borders · Hagerstown, MD · 2023
General purpose
$25,000
Doctors Without Borders · Hagerstown, MD · 2022
General purpose
$20,000
Save the Sound · New Haven, CT · 2025
General purpose
$20,000
Rideshare2vote Aware · Dallas, TX · 2024
General purpose
$20,000
Save the Sound · New Haven, CT · 2024
General purpose
$20,000
Beloved Asheville · Asheville, NC · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Save the Sound · New Haven, CT · 2023
General purpose
$19,000
Capital Area Food Bank · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$18,000
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$15,000
Cancer Vaccine Coalition · Middlebury, VT · 2025
General purpose
$15,000
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation (Fbo Cancer Vaccine Coalition) · Buffalo, NY · 2024
General purpose
$15,000
Civic Nation (When We All Vote) · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$15,000
Register Her · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General purpose
$12,000
Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte · Charlotte, NC · 2022
General purpose
$10,000
Erin Peterson Fund · Centreville, VA · 2025
General purpose
$10,000
Manna Food Bank · Mills River, NC · 2025
General purpose
$10,000
Martha'S Table · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$10,000
Salvation Army · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$10,000
Salvation Army · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$10,000
Voteriders · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
General purpose
$10,000
Register Her · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General purpose
$10,000
Salvation Army · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$10,000
Voteriders · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
General purpose
$10,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · Hagerstown, MD · 2022
General purpose
$10,000
Salvation Army · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$8,500
Feeding America · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$8,500
Feeding America · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$8,500
Feeding America · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$8,500
Feeding America · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$8,000
Some (So Others Might Eat) · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$8,000
Erin Peterson Fund · Centreville, VA · 2024
General purpose
$8,000
Erin Peterson Fund · Centreville, VA · 2023
General purpose
$8,000
Erin Peterson Fund · Centreville, VA · 2022
General purpose
$8,000
Save the Boundary Waters - Nmw · Ely, MN · 2022
General purpose
$7,000
Some (So Others Might Eat) · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$7,000
Wamu 885 American University · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$7,000
Weta · Arlington, VA · 2024
General purpose
$7,000
Branford Land Trust · Branford, CT · 2023
General purpose
$7,000
Some (So Others Might Eat) · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$7,000
Wamu 885 American University · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$7,000
Weta · Arlington, VA · 2023
General purpose
$7,000
Some (So Others Might Eat) · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$7,000
Wamu 885 American University · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$7,000
Weta · Arlington, VA · 2022
General purpose
$6,000
Branford Land Trust · Branford, CT · 2022
General purpose
$5,000
American Indian College Fund · Denver, CO · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
Dc Central Kitchen · Boston, MA · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
Smile Train · New York, NY · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
Wamu 885 American University · Washington, DC · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
Weta · Arlington, VA · 2025
General purpose
$5,000
American Indian College Fund · Denver, CO · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
Paralyzed Veterans of America · Topeka, KS · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
Smile Train · New York, NY · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
American Indian College Fund · Denver, CO · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
Paralyzed Veterans of America · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
Smile Train · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
American Indian College Fund · Denver, CO · 2022
General purpose
$5,000
Paralyzed Veterans of America · Topeka, KS · 2022
General purpose
$5,000
Smile Train · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$5,000
The Arc - Building Bridges Across the River - Art Reach · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$5,000
The Arc - Building Bridges Across the River - Music · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$5,000
The Arc - Building Bridges Across the River - Washington Ballet · Washington, DC · 2022
General purpose
$4,000
St Jude Children'S Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2022
General purpose
$3,000
Dc Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2024
General purpose
$3,000
Dc Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$3,000
Dc Central Kitchen · Boston, MA · 2022
General purpose

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