· Private foundation
Garwin Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $23,860 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $13,350 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $8,006 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,430 |
| SIMON'S ROCK AT BARD COLLEGE | $5,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,860 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $4,295 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,975 |
| AWESOME MATH LLC | $2,850 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +195% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago5× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +34%- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2018–2023 · $14k · revenue +195%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SISSP INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +319%
- PAPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTSone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -13%
- ASAWESOMEMATH SUMMER PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Education and Research
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SSP INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Garwin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garwin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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