· Private foundation
Charles L & Elizabeth P Gerli 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of CHARLES L & ELIZABETH P GERLI FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HEIMERDINGER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $1,000 |
| INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS | $500 |
| CAPITAL CITY RESCUE MISSION | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HAHISTORIC ALBANY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +157%
- THThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +28%
- SCST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN5× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- AMADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +29%
- MAMAKE A WISH AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $1k
- HOHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -55%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the community hospice is a member of st. peter's health partners…
Stabilize the community by providing a continuum of affordable housing and support services to homeless veterans and low income individuals and families.
To provide shelter and services for victims of domestic violence and their children. to work towards the elimination of domestic violence in our community and service area by providing emergency shelter, advocacy, awareness, community…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animalkind Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HISTORIC ALBANY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds Columbia County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMALKIND INC ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED SHARE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Hrbt Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc · T Backer Fund Inc · Carl E Touhey Foundation · The Bender Family Foundation · David & Candace Weir Foundation · Review Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation 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 Charles L & Elizabeth P Gerli Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.