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Gaynor Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $769k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL | $768,600 |
| CINCINNATI COUNTRY CLUB | $50,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL | $7,400 |
| DENVER BALLET GUILD | $3,500 |
| BEECHWOOD HOME | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE | $3,000 |
| THE FUND FOR WEST PALM BEACH POLICE | $2,500 |
| HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION | $1,500 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $1,300 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 10 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AOAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +61%
- CCCINCINNATI COUNTRY CLUB5× · 2021–2025 · $195k · revenue +20%
- TMThe Mercantile Library7× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +41%
- CSCINCINNATI SQUASH AND RACQUETBALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- PBPALM BEACH NAVY SEALone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds The Mercantile Library ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK COUNTY VANDERBILT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds Corporation for Findlay Market ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Denver Ballet Guild ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Williams Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Oliver Family Foundation · Hcs Foundation · Millstone Fund · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd
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 organization Gaynor Family 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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