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Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.9MArts & Culture$1.7MInternational$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MEnvironment$776kHealth$749kYouth Development$690kOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $473k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.9M
$10,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NABU GLOBAL INC$100,000
PROJECT DRAWDOWN$100,000
GIRL RISING$100,000
PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC$100,000
V-DAY$100,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$100,000
ROOM TO READ$100,000
AFYA FOUNDATION$100,000
BARD COLLEGE$100,000
GRAMEEN AMERICA INC$100,000
NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL$75,000
BACKLINE CARE INC$75,000
DREAMYARD PROJECT INC$75,000
SKY HIGH FARM INC$75,000
FEMME HOUSE$75,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $5k → 4%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $3k → 9%SAFE HORIZON INC: $50k → 17%AFYA FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $5k → 17%The Innocence Project inc: $3k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $5k → 17%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

VT
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
CT
CA
CO
WV
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 74 repeat orgs$777k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
26

Total granted

$9.5M
$604k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+4%

Still filing today

96%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    5× · 2020–2024 · $502k · revenue +20%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $475k · revenue +33%
  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -22%
  • UA
    URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -28%
  • SH
    SAFE HORIZON INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +4%
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
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
4
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
5
The Population Council Inc

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…

International
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
8
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
9
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
10
New York University

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.

Education
11
We Are Family Foundation

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.

Civil Rights
12
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Community Trust; 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.
05the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 120 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/110
Grantees still filing
67/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROOM TO READ: $502,000 · EducationROOM TO READBARD COLLEGE: $400,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGENABU GLOBAL INC: $335,000 · EducationNABU GLOBAL INCPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $285,000 · EducationPROJECT DRAWDOWNGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $210,000 · EducationGREENWAVE ORGANIZATI…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $195,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …+7 more: $188,000 · Education+7 moreTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMON…THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $265,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMYARD …NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION: $215,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INDEP…FEMME HOUSE: $150,000 · Arts & CultureFEMME HOUSETHE 19TH NEWS: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 19TH NEWSFreaks Action Network Inc: $69,350 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $159,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $431,350 · OtherNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOLSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $285,000 · OtherSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONBELIEVE IN STUDENTS INC: $255,000 · OtherBELIEVE IN STUDENTS INCTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $394,500 · OtherTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $251,000 · OtherGLYNWOOD CENTER INCCONNECT TO COMPETE INC: $250,000 · OtherCONNECT TO COMPETE INCGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $305,000 · OtherGRAMEEN AMERICA INCFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $150,000 · OtherV-Day: $410,000 · OtherV-DayTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $237,500 · OtherTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECTCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $250,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $225,000 · Other+39 more: $894,666 · Other+39 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PH…THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITYVEST INC: $45,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $105,500 · Philanthropy+4 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $475,000 · HealthBACKLINE CARE INC: $200,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 · HealthFOXG1 Research Inc: $31,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 · Health+5 more: $52,500 · HealthGirl Rising: $405,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $140,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $95,000 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $50,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $45,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $40,000 · International+3 more: $37,000 · InternationalSKY HIGH FARM INC: $356,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $200,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $40,000 · Food & NutritionNEW ROOTS FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · Food & Nutrition+9 more: $86,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$2,115,000Arts & Culture$1,458,350Other$4,339,016Philanthropy$1,200,500Health$833,500International$812,000Food & Nutrition$707,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ: $502,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $475,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $431,350 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetV-Day: $410,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetGirl Rising: $405,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $394,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSKY HIGH FARM INC: $356,500 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetNABU GLOBAL INC: $335,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $305,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $285,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $285,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $265,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBELIEVE IN STUDENTS INC: $255,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $251,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCONNECT TO COMPETE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $237,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $210,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $200,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $195,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetFEMME HOUSE: $150,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $108,333 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFreaks Action Network Inc: $69,350 over 4y, 36% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITYVEST INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPO GARZON INC: $40,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Tides FoundationRsf Social Finance IncPlatt Family Foundati…Amalgamated Charitabl…Jewish Community Fede…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncNational Philanthropi…ImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…The Rockefeller Found…
Jewish Communal FundNY23.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Gerald L Lennard Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 120 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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