· Private foundation
Gerald R Jordan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $320k
- $250k+2 grants · $935k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $484,640 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $450,000 |
| AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER | $220,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON | $100,000 |
| BELMONT HILL SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| THE JOEY FUND | $25,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MEDICINE FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GLADES ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $2,000 |
| HARVARD MAGAZINE | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFordham University7× · 2019–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +31%
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC7× · 2019–2025 · $805k · revenue +46%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC3× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- ICINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -47%
- PCPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +32%
- HFHBS FUNDone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
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 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.
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 and Research
How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds Glades Academy Foundation Inc ↗
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerald R Jordan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald R Jordan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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