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George Gardner & Fanny Whiting at a glance

· Private foundation

George Gardner & Fanny Whiting

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$257kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$587k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$7,000
VIRGINIA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$3,000
NORWICH UNIVERSITY$3,000
ST ANSELM'S COLLEGE$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION$3,000
KEENE STATE COLLEGE$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN$3,000
EMPIRE BEAUTY SCHOOL$3,000
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $4k → 10%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $4k → 12%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 22%MORRISON STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 11%SUNY ONEONTA: $2k → 13%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%EMPIRE BEAUTY SCHOOL: $3k → 17%LYNN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $5k → 11%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 20%LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE: $3k → 21%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%VIRGINIA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $3k → 21%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%COLBY SAWYER COLLEGE: $2k → 7%FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $14k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $3k → 9%GORDON COLLEGE: $2k → 10%WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%MT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $3k → 12%EMERSON COLLEGE: $4k → 16%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $4k → 11%CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE: $2k → 10%ST ANSELM'S COLLEGE: $3k → 7%SOUTHERN NH UNIVERSITY: $4k → 7%FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $11k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 10%LESLEY UNIVERISTY: $6k → 16%RIVIER UNIVERSITY: $12k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $6k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%RIVIER UNIVERSITY: $4k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $2k → 9%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

ME
VT
NH
MT
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
VA
MD
NC
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$150k · 9 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
28

Total granted

$150k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+16%

Still filing today

44%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UO
    University of New Haven
    4× · 2023–2026 · $22k · revenue +13%
  • RU
    Rivier University
    3× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +56%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2021 · $7k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • BENTLEY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
4
Dickinson College

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

Education
5
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
6
Lehigh University

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
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
9
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute; the most unlike its peers is The Univ of Montana-Western Foundation. 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

27 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. 27 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $49,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREKEENE STATE COLLEGE: $25,250 · OtherKEENE STATE COLLEGEPLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,750 · OtherPLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITYWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $9,500 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $9,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTDARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherSOUTHERN NH UNIVERSITY: $5,250 · OtherEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Other+10 more: $22,000 · Other+10 moreUniversity of New Haven: $22,000 · EducationUniversity of New HavenRivier University: $17,000 · EducationRivier UniversityBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITYSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $6,500 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYFranklin Pierce University: $5,250 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · Education+15 more: $33,000 · Education+15 more
Other$148,750Education$108,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of New Haven: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRivier University: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Pierce University: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $1,000 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 George Gardner & Fanny Whiting funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Gardner & Fanny Whiting. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Norwich University: 14% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 2% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Gordon College: 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 43 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$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