How much does Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation give?

Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $67,507 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Who are Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Delaware ($291k), Ginger Cove Foundation Inc ($34k), University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc ($13k).

Does Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation

Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$352kPhilanthropy$34kHealth$8kRecreation & Sports$5kPublic Benefit$3kArts & Culture$750Religion$700International$500Other$0

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $18k
$10k–50k3 grants · $50k

$232

Median grant

States reached

$140k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE	$15,000
SAINT MARY'S PARISH	$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
WOODS MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$250
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS	$250
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$232
THE EISENHOWER FOUNDATION	$200
JUDICIAL WATCH INC	$200
NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM	$150
Individual grant recipient	$100

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$385k · 24 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$385k

$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+37%

Still filing today

67%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPublic BenefitInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
8× · 2017–2024 · $291k · revenue +37%
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +72%
KA
KAPPA ALPHA ORDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
6× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +194%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
one grant, 2017 · $10k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE - BABATUNDE OGUNNAIKE GLOBAL ENGINEERING STUDENT ENR
one grant, 2018 · $5k
TC
THOMAS CHARITIESgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +58%

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.

The George Washington University

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…

Education

Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

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…

Community Improvement

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education

New York University

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.

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 45 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/27

Grantees still filing

21/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$341,388Philanthropy$34,350Education$29,342Health$6,250Public Benefit$1,850Arts & Culture$750International$740

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.

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.

T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francis E and Mildred W Gardiner Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get 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

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home