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Ganlee Fund

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2019
58
Grants FY2019
11
States reached
$922k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.

Philanthropy$1.8MArts & Culture$172kHealth$81kEnvironment$44kEducation$33kInternational$22kAnimals$14kScience & Tech$14kOther$0
02FY2019 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k52 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$500
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND (GS VAN HEERDEN FUND)$921,814
FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND (C VAN HEERDEN FAMILY FUND)$921,814
HISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY INC$52,000
HISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC$10,000
HISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC$10,000
ORANGE COUNTY LAND TR$5,000
FRIENDS OF ACADIA$5,000
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC$5,000
MOEGYO HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION$5,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$5,000
MOUNT DESERT LAND & DESERT PERSERVE$2,500
SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADAIA NATIONAL PARK$2,000
THE WENDELL GILLEY MUSEUM OF BIRD CARVING$2,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 10%YOGA GIVES BACK: $3k → 14%HOSPICE OF ORANGE & SULLIVAN COUNTIES: $500 → 14%YOGA GIVES BACK: $500 → 14%YOGA GIVES BACK: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
NY
MA
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CA
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VA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$383k · 49 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
3

Total granted

$383k
$800

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+97%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsInternationalHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • HS
    HISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $161k · revenue +65%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +2%
  • FO
    Friends of Acadia
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • MF
    Maine Farmland Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +134%
  • OC
    OCEAN CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150 · revenue +97%
  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150 · revenue +54%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
8
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
11
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
12
National Ecological Observatory Network Inc

To enable understanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land-use change, and invasive species on continental-scale ecology by providing support for infrastructure and consistent methodologies to support research and…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is International Partners in Mission. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Hospice Care ServicesSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Independent K-8 SchoolsFood Pantries & AssistanceAnimal Rescue and AdoptionChild and Family ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Christian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Public Library SupportSubstance Abuse Treatment
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr14%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr14%69%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/57
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,301

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/55
Grantees still filing
45/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND (C VAN HEERDEN FAMILY FUND) — $921,814 · OtherFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND (C VAN HEERDEN FAMILY FUND)FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND (GS VAN HEERDEN FUND) — $921,814 · OtherFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND (GS VAN HEERDEN FUND)HISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC — $160,500 · OtherHISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC+24 more — $121,525 · Other+24 moreFriends of Acadia — $15,000 · EnvironmentORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — $8,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $3,500 · EnvironmentPATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR — $2,600 · Environment+9 more — $5,175 · EnvironmentHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $1,500 · HealthMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC — $1,000 · HealthROCKING THE BOAT INC — $5,000 · EducationJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $3,500 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $1,800 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $1,600 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $1,400 · EducationFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC — $950 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $850 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $650 · EducationSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT — $5,000 · AnimalsACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $4,500 · AnimalsGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $1,500 · AnimalsTHE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS INC — $1,500 · Animals+1 more — $150 · AnimalsMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory — $5,500 · Science & TechMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $4,500 · Science & TechWENDELL GILLEY MUSEUM OF BIRD CARVING — $6,000 · Arts & CultureAbbe Museum — $1,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $300 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,125,653Environment$44,275Health$17,500Education$15,750Animals$12,650Science & Tech$10,000Arts & Culture$7,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC — $160,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE MID-HUDSON VALLEY INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWENDELL GILLEY MUSEUM OF BIRD CARVING — $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF HANCOCK COUNT — $5,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB — $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYoga Gives Back — $3,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPATUXENT TIDEWATER LAND TR — $2,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAcadia Family Center — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetAbbe Museum — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE VOLUNTEERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC — $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $925 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC — $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCasey Trees — $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF ORANGE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $475 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Colket Family Foundat…Ethel D Colket Founda…Cornelia Cogswell Ros…Florence V Burden Fou…The Chicago Community…The Nature ConservancyHattie a and Fred C L…The Robert P and Arle…Davis Family Foundati…Janet Stone Jones Fou…The Medway Charitable…
Maine Community Foundation IncME27.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Nature Conservancy · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · The Medway Charitable Trust

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 Ganlee Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Historic Sotterley Inc — 28% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ganlee Fund?

Find your warmest path to Ganlee Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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