Massachusetts · Private foundation
Gardner Family Charitable 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.
- $354k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Gardner Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 45 | $354k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $358k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $452k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $445k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $466k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy | $256,600 | 5 | 0% |
| National Pert Consortium Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Brooks School | $106,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Hill School | $44,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Congregation Ahavat Olam | $43,116 | 3 | n/a |
| Brothers for Life | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barnard College | $28,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gardner Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Demoulas Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Dwyer Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
Compare Gardner Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Gardner Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gardner Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Gardner Family Charitable Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $353,985 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Gardner Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (26%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Gardner Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy ($257k), National Pert Consortium Inc ($110k), Brooks School ($107k).
- Does Gardner Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gardner Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gardner Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Essex County Community Foundation Inc, Fidelity Foundation, Demoulas Foundation.
- Where is Gardner Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Gardner Family Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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