How much did GARDNER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of GARDNER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

aircounseling

2019

roomcounselingbook

2020

buildingwakefieldcapital

2021

scholarshipscapital

2022

wakefieldveteransscholarshipsemerson

2023

outdoorscholarshipswakefield

2024

fire rescuescholarshipswakefield

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $31k
$10k–50k3 grants · $69k
$50k–250k9 grants · $771k
$250k+1 grant · $512k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$30M

Total assets

Largest grants

WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION$512,078
WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION$195,119
DIXON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY$100,000
ST PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$80,000
PROVIDENCE MEDICAL FOUNDATION$76,000
LITTLE RED HEN THEATRE$75,000
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$75,000
WINSIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE$70,000
CITY OF WAYNE$50,000
DIOCESE OF CHARLESTONCATHOLIC COMM FDTN$50,000
ST JAMES COMMUNITY FUND$25,000
PILGER FIRE & RESCUE$24,000
AMI KIDS$20,000
COMMUNITY RECREATION OF WAKEFIELD$9,561
BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$7,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 20 repeat orgs$933k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$640k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+72%

Still filing today

35%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

WS
WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +4%
LR
LITTLE RED HEN THEATRE
8× · 2017–2024 · $543k · revenue +100% · 83% of their budget
NW
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
2× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +22%

Funded once

AF
ALLEN-WATERBURY FIRE & RESCUE
one grant, 2019 · $76k
CO
CITY OF WISNER
one grant, 2018 · $75k
HH
HAVEN HOUSE
one grant, 2018 · $75k

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.

Northeast State Community College

The northeast state community college foundation promotes and supports academic and educational scholarship, community service, and other programs offered by the college in an effort to provide the resources necessary for students to have…

Education

North Central State College Foundation

The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.

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Community Colleges of New Hampshire

To support the community college system of new hampshire and make higher education more accessible.

Philanthropy

Northampton County Area Community College Foundation

The Northampton Community College Foundation raises, invests and manages private resources for the benefit of Northampton Community College, it's students and it's staff.

Education

Northwestern Oklahoma State University

To raise and manage private funds to support Northwestern Oklahoma State University

Education

Waynesburg University

Provide higher education to students in undergraduate and graduate programs

Education

Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central

To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.

Food & Nutrition

Northeast Hospital Foundation

Raise funds for healthcare programs & services for residents of the greater Humble, TX area.

Health

North Hennepin Community College

The mission of the North Hennepin Community College Foundation is to create access to quality educational opportunities by energizing and mobilizing community, college, and alumni resources on behalf of North Hennepin Community College.

—

Norwich Community Development Corporatio

To further the economic development of the Norwich Community through growth and development of the Norwich Business Park, revitalization of the downtown Norwich area, and preservation of the historic Norwich Harbor and waterfront, by…

Community Improvement

Habitat for Humanity of North Central Iowa

The purpose of the organizion is to create decent, affordable housing for those in need and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

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The Northeastern State University

The Foundation was created exclusively to benefit Northeastern State University.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for the Heartland and the most unlike its peers is Little Red Hen Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,952,680Education$4,124,234Youth Development$100,000Religion$55,000Human Services$50,750Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation GARDNER FOUNDATION 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.

2025

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LITTLE RED HEN THEATRE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +100% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 470757962 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LITTLE RED HEN THEATRE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 83% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Gardner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gardner Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GARDNER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Gardner Foundation?

More from the funding graph

GARDNER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Gardner Foundation?

More from the funding graph