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Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$1,050
Median grant
1
States reached
$231k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IS 8 BASKETBALL INC$23,625
USATEESCOM$4,594
EMPIRE RISES INC$1,050
YOUTH RENEWAL FUND$1,000
POSITIVE DIRECTION OF QUEENS COUNTY INC$940
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACTBLUE: $1k → 8%HOLY FAMILY UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $6k → 7%IS 8 BASKETBALL INC: $24k → 13%THE FIELD: $1k → 17%DEAN KIDS INC: $800 → 20%TEAMWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 28%SPWORTHBOOKSORG: $392 → 14%WOLF PARK INC: $250 → 19%SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC: $513 → 6%HOLY FAMILY UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 7%IS 8 BASKETBALL INC: $2k → 13%the field: $750 → 17%DEAN KIDS INC: $800 → 20%WILDLIFE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY: $2k → 28%BSN SPORTS LLC: $5k → 14%FIRE ISLAND SYNAGOGUE: $250 → 7%IS 8 BASKETBALL INC: $980 → 13%FOODBANKNYC: $1k → 17%dean kids inc: $760 → 20%WILDLIFE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY: $2k → 28%POSITIVE DIRECTION OF QUEENS COUNTY INC: $940 → 13%TEACHERS COLLEGE: $3k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY: $600 → 28%POSITIVE DIRECTION OF QUEENS COUNTY INC: $750 → 13%TEACHERS COLLEGE: $2k → 17%USATEESCOM: $5k → 20%WILDLIFE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY: $500 → 28%THE TIME IN CHILDREN'S ART INITIATIVE: $6k → 17%USATEESCOM: $603 → 20%THE TIME IN CHILDREN'S ART INITIATIVE: $3k → 17%BROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB: $3k → 20%ACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN: $2k → 20%WILDLIFE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY: $3k → 17%BROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB: $965 → 20%THE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $6k → 17%BROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB: $800 → 20%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1k → 17%JEFFERSON HS BASKETBALL: $1k → 20%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1k → 17%EMPIRE RISES INC: $1k → 20%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $600 → 17%PNW SPORTS INC: $2k → 20%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $600 → 17%PNW SPORTS INC: $1k → 20%ny lightning: $2k → 17%NY LIGHTNING: $2k → 17%THE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $2k → 17%THE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 14 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
15

Total granted

$84k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+35%

Still filing today

57%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BY
    BROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • TC
    Teachers College Columbia University
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    4× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +44%
  • BS
    BSN SPORTS LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • WC
    WILDLIFE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
2
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
3
Brooklyn Inst of Arts & Sciences Trust
Philanthropy
4
Lycee Francais De New York

"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…

Education
5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music

The mission of the brooklyn conservatory of music is to transformlives and build community through the expressive, educational andtherapeutic powers of music.

Arts & Culture
8
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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9
Brooklyn Public Library

It is the mission of the library to ensure the preservation and transmission of society's knowledge, history and culture, and to provide the people of brooklyn with free and open access to information for education, recreation and…

Education
10
Edible Schoolyard New York

Edible schoolyard nyc is on a mission to make edible education accessible for every child in nyc. we believe edible education-where kids experience hands-on cooking and gardening helps kids gain the skills to contribute to a healthy and…

Education
11
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
12
National Dance Institute

The purposes of the corporation are to introduce and foster the arts into the experience, participation and knowledge of children using dance as a catalyst; promote the belief that the arts are primary and vital in our society and should…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Youth Sports Club Inc; the most unlike its peers is La Escuelita Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IS 8 BASKETBALL INC: $26,505 · OtherIS 8 BASKETBALL INCHOLY FAMILY UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10,604 · OtherHOLY FAMILY UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCHUSATEESCOM: $5,197 · OtherUSATEESCOMBSN SPORTS LLC: $5,168 · OtherBSN SPORTS LLCIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILDLIFE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY: $3,000 · OtherDEAN KIDS INC: $2,597 · Other+10 more: $7,703 · Other+10 moreTHE TIME IN CHILDRENS ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TIME IN CHIL…American Museum of Natural History: $3,570 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum …THE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $2,800 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND STR…+1 more: $513 · Arts & CultureTHE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationTHE SPEYER L…Teachers College Columbia University: $4,500 · EducationTeachers Col…YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $1,000 · EducationYOUTH RENEWA…+1 more: $50 · EducationBROOKLYN YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC: $4,825 · Recreation & SportsPNW SPORTS INC: $2,800 · Recreation & SportsWildlife Conservation Society: $4,145 · AnimalsACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalEMPIRE RISES INC: $1,050 · Youth DevelopmentTEAMWORK FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Youth Development
Other$64,774Arts & Culture$15,883Education$11,550Recreation & Sports$7,625Animals$4,145Crime & Legal$2,000Youth Development$1,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • The Sandy Hook Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundation 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 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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