· Private foundation
Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| KAPPA ALPHA ORDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP SPALDING HIGH SCHOOL | $1,050 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $250 |
| WOODS MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $250 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $232 |
| THE EISENHOWER FOUNDATION | $200 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $200 |
| NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM | $150 |
| TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INC | $100 |
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 (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +42% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE8× · 2017–2024 · $291k · revenue +37%
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +72%- KAKAPPA ALPHA ORDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE - BABATUNDE OGUNNAIKE GLOBAL ENGINEERING STUDENT ENRone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TCTHOMAS CHARITIESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +58%
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
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…
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Woodland Beach Volunteer Fire Department. 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.
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 51 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 45 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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds GINGER COVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA ALPHA ORDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THOMAS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · The Geaton and Joann Decesaris Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Accokeek Foundation Inc — 44% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.