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Bernard F & Alva B Gimbel Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$7.9MCrime & Legal$2.9MPublic Benefit$2.1MCivil Rights$1.7MEmployment$1.6MEducation$1.5MHealth$1.4MCommunity Improvement$809kInternational$626kOther$5.4M
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $4.0M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEO PHILANTHROPY INC$400,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$350,000
STANDEARTH$300,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$300,000
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK$250,000
THE NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC$225,000
CLIMATE & CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND$200,000
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$200,000
PROTEUS FUND$200,000
350ORG$150,000
URGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE AND GENDER EQUITY$150,000
EARTHJUSTICE$150,000
CERES INC$150,000
SD FOUNDATION DBA VOTING RIGHTS LAB$150,000
LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE$150,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING AGENCY OF OYSTER BAY - EAST NORWICH INC: $3k → 6%YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING AGENCY OF OYSTER BAY - EAST NORWICH INC: $3k → 6%YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING AGENCY OF OYSTER BAY - EAST NORWICH INC: $3k → 6%YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING AGENCY OF OYSTER BAY - EAST NORWICH INC: $3k → 6%SEARCH FOR CHANGE: $10k → 9%SEARCH FOR CHANGE: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
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IL
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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Bernard F & Alva B Gimbel Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Bernard F & Alva B Gimbel Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 89 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

89 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
18

Total granted

$22M
$444k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+8%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $973k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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

  • S
    STAND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +1%
  • NY
    NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +135%
  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES NYC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +8%
  • AF
    Advocates for Children of New Yorkgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +38%
  • UG
    URBAN GREEN COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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2
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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3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
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
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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
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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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7
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
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National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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12
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Search for Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterDance Arts OrganizationsAddiction Recovery ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…Pregnancy Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support ServicesImmigrant Worker Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/109
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,651

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.

05the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
109/109
Grantees still filing
68/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STAND — $1,150,000 · EnvironmentSTANDNEW VENTURE FUND — $990,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDEARTHJUSTICE — $875,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICELEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $850,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUC…Rainforest Action Network — $850,000 · EnvironmentRainforest Action NetworkCERES INC — $700,000 · EnvironmentCERES INC350ORG — $675,000 · Environment350ORGPACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER — $500,000 · EnvironmentPACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES …CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND — $400,000 · EnvironmentBlueGreen Alliance Foundation — $330,000 · Environment+6 more — $546,333 · Environment+6 moreNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $1,125,000 · OtherNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INCGuttmacher Institute Inc — $450,000 · OtherGuttmacher Institute IncTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $350,000 · OtherTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $290,000 · OtherCASES — $275,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $375,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC — $345,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Corporation — $325,000 · OtherWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC — $550,000 · OtherWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INCTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $500,000 · OtherTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS I…LEAP INC — $360,000 · Other+56 more — $3,299,411 · Other+56 moreTHE BRONX DEFENDERS — $800,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BRONX DE…LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC — $500,000 · Crime & LegalLAWYERS FOR …THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $500,000 · Crime & LegalTHE LEGAL AI…LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $300,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL ACTION…BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES INC — $240,000 · Crime & LegalBROOKLYN LEG…CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC — $200,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR F…THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New York — $100,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more — $140,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $1,064,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CA…NEO Philanthropy Inc — $1,000,000 · Public BenefitNEO Phila…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $500,000 · Civil RightsPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $370,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC — $325,000 · Civil RightsALL VOTING IS LOCAL — $200,000 · Civil RightsBrandworkers International Inc — $150,000 · Civil RightsURGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY — $150,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $54,000 · Civil RightsTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC — $415,000 · EmploymentJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA — $300,000 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS INC — $250,000 · EmploymentALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC — $225,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $225,000 · EmploymentPARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · EmploymentPROTEUS FUND INC — $900,000 · EducationHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $325,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $108,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $100,000 · Education+11 more — $103,090 · Education
Environment$7,866,333Other$8,244,411Crime & Legal$2,880,000Public Benefit$2,064,000Civil Rights$1,749,000Employment$1,615,000Education$1,536,090

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTAND — $1,150,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $1,125,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $1,064,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $990,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $900,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $875,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $850,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $850,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BRONX DEFENDERS — $800,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCERES INC — $700,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budget350ORG — $675,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC — $550,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC — $500,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER — $500,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc — $450,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC — $415,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND — $400,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $375,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $370,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLEAP INC — $360,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC — $345,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Foundation — $330,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC — $325,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $325,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $325,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA — $300,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $290,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $264,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE — $260,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC — $250,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES INC — $240,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC — $225,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALL VOTING IS LOCAL — $200,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSD Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC — $175,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $170,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBrandworkers International Inc — $150,000 over 4y, 11% of budget
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 STAND ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
  • Who funds THE BRONX DEFENDERS ↗
  • Who funds CERES INC ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
  • Who funds LEAP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BlueGreen Alliance Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE ↗
  • Who funds NEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES 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.

The Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…The Scherman Foundati…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Hyde and Watson F…Robin Hood FoundationNew Venture FundTides FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Overbrook Foundat…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Rockefeller Philanthr…
The Ford FoundationNY32.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Overbrook Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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 Bernard F & Alva B Gimbel Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities — 100% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bernard F & Alva B Gimbel Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bernard F & Alva B Gimbel Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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