· Private foundation
Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $228k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $690k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INC | $125,000 |
| ASTORIA PARK CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| SISTERS OF CHARITY HEALTH SYSTEMS | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| BOK TOWER GARDENS | $25,000 |
| LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH STATION | $25,000 |
| MCCLEAN HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $25,000 |
| MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE | $25,000 |
| ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| MAY DUGAN CENTER | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
132 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMThe Musical Arts Association8× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +45%
KENYON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +23%- UCUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $469k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- PCPENINSULA COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $35k
- MCMERCY CORPone grant, 2017 · $20k
- HHOPEWELLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +37%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
109 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. 109 of the 188 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR OUR ECONOMIC FUTURE OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Astoria Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds LAND STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GROUP PLAN COMMISSION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Reinberger Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Beacon Hill Village Inc: 28% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Bok Tower Gardens Inc: 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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