· Private foundation
Gerald R Jordan 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $489k
- $250k+1 grant · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $389,607 |
| AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER | $200,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON | $150,000 |
| THE JOEY FUND | $85,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $54,479 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HBS FUND | $20,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| MEDICINE FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RECREATION | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE | $5,000 |
| NEWTON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your 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 +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- FUFordham University6× · 2019–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +31%
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC6× · 2019–2024 · $585k · revenue +46%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC2× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- ICINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -47%
- PCPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +32%
- CCCAPE COD HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $20k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Pbc and the most unlike its peers is Par 3 Foundation 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 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 67 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 Fordham University ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Glades Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK 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: Fidelity Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Gerald R Jordan 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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.