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Gardinor-Prunaret Foundation at a glance

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Gardinor-Prunaret 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.

$471k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$935kArts & Culture$540kHealth$416kPhilanthropy$398kEducation$370kAnimals$90kHuman Services$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $230k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORGES FOUNDATION$230,000
PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS$40,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,200
MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MANOMET INC$25,000
WILDLANDS TRUST$25,000
ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION$10,000
HISTORICAL AND LIBRARY SOCIETY OF NATICK$10,000
PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$10,000
BLACK FEATHER HORSE RESCUE$10,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FUND$1,000
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FORGES FOUNDATION: $230k → 8%MASS AUDUBON: $50k → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 16%THE SALVATION ARMY: $25k → 9%BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 11%ST JOHNSBURY ANTHENAEUM: $40k → 12%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL: $100k → 8%MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $25k → 8%BRIGHAM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $75k → 16%THE SALVATION ARMY: $25k → 9%ARLINGTON FOOD SHELF: $25k → 11%ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM: $25k → 12%FORGES FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $25k → 8%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL: $70k → 16%THE SALVATION ARMY: $25k → 9%BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 11%THE HOWLAND FUND INC: $50k → 8%MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $25k → 8%ARLINGTON FOOD SHELF: $25k → 11%PLIMOUTH PLANTATION: $50k → 8%MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $25k → 8%THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $50k → 16%FORGES FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $25k → 8%THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $25k → 16%PLIMOUTH PLANTATION: $50k → 8%MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $25k → 8%THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $25k → 16%NATHAN HALE FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $25k → 8%THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $25k → 16%PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $50k → 8%HOWLAND FOUNDATION: $110k → 16%FORGES FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%HOWLAND FOUNDATION: $75k → 16%WILDLANDS TRUST: $50k → 8%HOWLAND FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%FORGES FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%HOWLAND FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%FORGES FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%WILDLANDS TRUST: $50k → 8%THE HOWLAND FUND INC: $50k → 8%PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $40k → 8%PLIMOTH PLANTATION: $40k → 8%PLYMOUTH PATUXET: $40k → 8%PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS: $40k → 8%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS - HARVARD: $50k → 8%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 23 repeat orgs$450k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
10

Total granted

$2.8M
$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-1%

Still filing today

52%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FF
    FORGES FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +363% · 34% of their budget
  • RF
    ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $295k · revenue +18%
  • WT
    WILDLANDS TRUST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • BW
    BRIGHAM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • MA
    MASS AUDUBON
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
Warfield Foundation
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3
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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4
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Penland Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Huntington Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
9
Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
10
The Ford Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Wyeth Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Hearst Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Forges Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC: $295,000 · OtherROWLAND FOUNDATION INCMORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $200,000 · OtherMORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARYBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL: $170,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITALPLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $140,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INCPLYMOUTH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $125,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH EDUCATIONAL FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $100,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE SALVATION ARMY: $75,200 · OtherBRIGHAM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $75,000 · Other+14 more: $404,544 · Other+14 moreFORGES FOUNDATION: $530,000 · EnvironmentFORGES FOUNDATIONWILDLANDS TRUST INC: $230,000 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS TRUST INCTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $125,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS+2 more: $55,000 · Environment+2 morePLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: $180,000 · Arts & CulturePLIMOTH PAT…ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureST JOHNSBUR…NEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BEDFORD…THE HOWLAND FUND INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBattenkill Valley Health Center Inc: $50,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 · HealthTHE NATHAN HALE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE PLYMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Education
Other$1,704,744Environment$940,000Arts & Culture$320,000Philanthropy$100,000Health$70,000Public Benefit$50,000Education$45,000

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 budgetFORGES FOUNDATION: $530,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetROWLAND FOUNDATION INC: $295,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetWILDLANDS TRUST INC: $230,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: $180,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $140,000 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC: $120,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetTHE HOWLAND FUND INC: $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetBattenkill Valley Health Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PLYMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMANOMET INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds FORGES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDLANDS TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWLAND FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATHAN HALE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Battenkill Valley Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PLYMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗

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.

Mary Elizabeth Pearce…Henry Hornblower Fund…Roberta M Childs Char…Rockland Trust Charit…E Joseph Evans Charit…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation TrMA24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation Tr · Henry Hornblower Fund Inc · Roberta M Childs Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · E Joseph Evans Charitable Trust Janet Alfieri Trustee · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gardinor-Prunaret Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gardinor-Prunaret Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Battenkill Valley Health Center Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gardinor-Prunaret Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gardinor-Prunaret 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 36 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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