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Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation

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.

$32k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,050
Largest grant, FY2024
$23,625
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$231k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$32k33%
FY202310$21k40%
FY20225$9k80%
FY20215$5k80%
FY20199$13k33%
FY201811$16k64%
FY20177$11kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$31kRecreation & Sports$20kArts & Culture$18kEducation$11kReligion$11kAnimals$7kCrime & Legal$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees
All grantees of Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Time in Childrens Arts Initiative Inc$9,00022%
The Speyer Legacy School$6,00010%
Brooklyn Youth Sports Club Inc$4,82530%
Teachers College Columbia University$4,50020%
Wildlife Conservation Society$4,14540%
American Museum of Natural History$3,57040%
Pnw Sports Inc$2,80022%
The New 42nd Street Inc$2,80020%
Access Justice Brooklyn Inc$2,00010%
The Performance Zone Inc$1,75020%
Positive Direction of Queens County Inc$1,6902n/a
Empire Rises Inc$1,05011%
Youth Renewal Fund$1,00010%
Food Bank for New York City$1,00010%
The Sandy Hook Foundation Inc$51310%
Teamwork Foundation Inc$50010%
Wolf Park Inc$25010%
Fire Island Synogogue$2501n/a
Share Our Strength$10010%
La Escuelita Inc$5010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Time in Childrens Arts Initiative Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Speyer Legacy School: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Youth Sports Club Inc: $4,825 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $4,145 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $3,570 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPnw Sports Inc: $2,800 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetThe New 42nd Street Inc: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Justice Brooklyn Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Performance Zone Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmpire Rises Inc: $1,050 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYouth Renewal Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sandy Hook Foundation Inc: $513 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTeamwork Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWolf Park Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Escuelita Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Network for GoodDC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation

How much does Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation give?
Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $31,809 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (29%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Time in Childrens Arts Initiative Inc ($9k), The Speyer Legacy School ($6k), Brooklyn Youth Sports Club Inc ($5k).
Does Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation based?
Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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