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Gardner Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$864kEducation$546kReligion$181kPhilanthropy$86kArts & Culture$56kInternational$49kFood & Nutrition$40kYouth Development$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $292k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA$40,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISREAL$40,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$40,000
THE FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANITISEMITISM$40,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$20,000
THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$16,660
BROOKS SCHOOL$15,000
CONGREGATION OF AHAVAT OLAM$10,272
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
THE HILL SCHOOL$10,000
NATIONAL PERT CONSORTIUM$10,000
CAMP TEVYA$10,000
MERRIMACK VALLEY JEWISH FEDERATION$7,500
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CAMP TEVYA: $10k → 7%TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 16%THE HILL SCHOOL: $12k → 7%SHOAH FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%THE HARVEY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%UJAJCC OF GREENWICH: $17k → 9%TRUSTEES OF TRINITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $40k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISREAL: $40k → 7%NATIONAL PERT CONSORTIUM: $100k → 7%THE FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANITISEMITISM: $40k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%THE HILL SCHOOL: $10k → 7%SHOAH FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%UJAJCC OF GREENWICH: $14k → 9%NATIONAL PERT CONSORTIUM: $10k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%THE HILL SCHOOL: $10k → 7%UJAJCC OF GREENWICH: $12k → 9%THE HILL SCHOOL: $10k → 7%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%UJAJCC OF GREENWICH: $10k → 9%BARNARD COLLEGE: $26k → 17%CHABAD OF GREENWICH: $10k → 9%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $100k → 16%TUFTS HILLEL: $20k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA: $40k → 17%BROOKS SCHOOL: $25k → 10%BROOKS SCHOOL: $25k → 10%BROOKS SCHOOL: $25k → 10%CONGREGATION OF AHAVAT OLAM: $19k → 10%BROOKS SCHOOL: $16k → 10%BROOKS SCHOOL: $15k → 10%CONGREGATION OF AHAVAT OLAM: $14k → 10%CONGREGATION OF AHAVAT OLAM: $10k → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $70k → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $50k → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $50k → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $20k → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $20k → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $20k → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $20k → 10%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $20k → 10%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $20k → 10%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $20k → 10%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $20k → 10%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $20k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 44 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
27

Total granted

$1.7M
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+28%

Still filing today

55%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsReligionOther
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

  • GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $257k · revenue +83%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PERT CONSORTIUM INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +42%
  • BS
    BROOKS SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $107k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TM
    TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • TRINITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • VS
    VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +5%
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
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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2
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
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
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
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
7
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.

—
8
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
9
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
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. 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

43 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. 43 of the 87 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $500,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · OtherTUFTS MEDICAL CENTERTEMPLE EMANUEL: $129,376 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELIndividual grant recipient: $62,510 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA: $46,600 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAT OLAM: $43,116 · Other+48 more: $251,486 · Other+48 moreGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $256,600 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY TH…BROOKS SCHOOL: $106,500 · EducationBROOKS SCHOOLTHE HILL SCHOOL: $44,500 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLBARNARD COLLEGE: $28,100 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE+9 more: $57,800 · Education+9 moreNATIONAL PERT CONSORTIUM INC: $110,000 · HealthTHE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL: $5,000 · Health+6 more: $7,600 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $15,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBrothers for Life: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $900 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $40,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $250 · Civil RightsMOVING TRADITIONS: $14,400 · Religion
Other$1,283,088Education$493,500Health$122,600Philanthropy$65,500Arts & Culture$55,900Civil Rights$40,250Religion$14,400

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 budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $256,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PERT CONSORTIUM INC: $110,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL: $106,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $44,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $28,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $14,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HARVEY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PIKE SCHOOL INC: $5,878 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $5,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence General Hospital: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWALDORF SCHOOL AT MORAINE FARM INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB NAI B RITH: $697 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RELIGION: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FLOATS FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PERT CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW 42ND STREET INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds THE HARVEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PIKE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗

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.

Essex County Communit…Fidelity FoundationDemoulas FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncThe Dwyer FoundationNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The US Charitable Gif…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jewish Communal Fund
Essex County Community Foundation IncMA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Gardner Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gardner Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Lowell General Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
  • Rockport Art Association: 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 87 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home