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Gensler Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC | $15,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| BELMONT DAY SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| US ADAPTIVE RECREATION CENTER | $4,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| GREEN MUSIC CENTER AT SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| NORTH COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF TOURNAMENT | $2,500 |
| CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WOODBURY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MAGEE WOMEN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HEADING HOME | $1,250 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BIBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING3× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
Cornell University3× · 2017–2023 · $912k · revenue +59%- CCCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS6× · 2017–2024 · $363k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury Collegegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +47%
- SOSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +73%
- COCHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATREone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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…
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodbury University and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 51 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 42 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 BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE TO EDUCATE AFGHAN WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Santa Rosa Players DBA 6th Street Playhouse ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds STAGE HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County ↗
- Who funds Marin Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODBURY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Architectural Foundation of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES 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: Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · 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 organization Gensler 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% 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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