· Private foundation
Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $473k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRL RISING | $100,000 |
| NABU GLOBAL INC | $100,000 |
| AFYA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| GRAMEEN AMERICA INC | $100,000 |
| V-DAY | $100,000 |
| PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC | $100,000 |
| PROJECT DRAWDOWN | $100,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $100,000 |
| FEMME HOUSE | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC | $75,000 |
| DREAMYARD PROJECT INC | $75,000 |
| NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| GLYNWOOD CENTER INC | $75,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $480k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 14 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k 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
- RTROOM TO READ5× · 2020–2024 · $502k · revenue +7%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $475k · revenue +33%- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -22%
- NYNew York Philharmonic Symphony of New York Incone grant, 2019 · $50k
- SHSAFE HORIZON INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +4%
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 the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Community Trust and the most unlike its peers is Backline Care 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 120 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds V-Day ↗
- Who funds Girl Rising ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FARM INC ↗
- Who funds NABU GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DRAWDOWN ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN STUDENTS INC ↗
- Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECT TO COMPETE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP ↗
- Who funds BACKLINE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds FEMME HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Freaks Action Network Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Tides Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Platt Family Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Rockefeller 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 Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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