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Gerard Foundation at a glance

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Gerard 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.

$81k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

66% of Gerard Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Gerard Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $81k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
2
’18
3
’19
3
’20
7
’21
2
’22
4
’23
4
’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2025.

Recreation & Sports$684kEducation$45kHuman Services$26kHealth$6kFood & Nutrition$4kHousing & Shelter$3kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k7 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STARFIRE SPORTS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$15,000
ASU FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$5,000
CHILDHAVEN$2,500
EXCHANGE CLUB OF HIGHLINE$2,500
HIGHLINE AREA FOODBANK$500
THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND$350
HOSPITALITY HOUSE$350
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 (FY21–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $350 → 7%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $1k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $1k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $1k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$304k · 7 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$304k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-11%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SS
    STARFIRE SPORTS
    4× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +29%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +196%
  • C
    CHILDHAVEN
    4× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • AW
    ART WITH HEART
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -11%
  • HM
    HIGHLINE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue -91%
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
St Francis House

St. Francis House provides food clothing and necessities at no cost to people with low income or experiencing homelessness in King County Washington. Single men women and families are welcome.

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2
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
3
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
4
Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence

Highline schools foundation was established in 1999 to help bridge the gap between what the state of washington provides our district and what is needed for our students, families, staff and teachers to achieve success.

Philanthropy
5
Highline Heritage Museum

To collect, preserve and tell the stories of the Highline region and its people.

Unclassified
6
Family Law Casa of King County

Family law casa is committed to positive long-term outcomes for children, families, and communities navigating economic injustice across king county. we advance intersectional equity by providing free advocacy services for children…

Human Services
7
American Family Housing

American family housing provides a continuum of housing and an array of services to support homeless and low-income families and adults to secure a stable home, to be an active part of their community, and to achieve a self-sustaining way…

Housing & Shelter
8
Seattle Institute for Early Childhood Development

Hilltop is transforming early childhood education through play, collaboration, and reflection: in our classrooms with children, partnerships with families, and professional development with educators.

Education
9
Holocaust Center for Humanity

The Holocaust Center for Humanity teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, inspiring students of all ages to confront bigotry and indifference, promote human dignity, and take action.

—
10
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
11
Horizon House

Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.

Human Services
12
Latino Community Fund of Washington State

Improve the well-being of the Latinos in Washington State

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Highline Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac: $457,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYSTARFIRE SPORTS: $227,000 · Recreation & SportsSTARFIRE SPORTSCHILDHAVEN: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF HIGHLINE: $6,500 · OtherMARSHALL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4,000 · OtherART WITH HEART: $2,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherHIGHLINE AREA FOOD BANK: $3,500 · Food & NutritionVINE MAPLE PLACE: $3,000 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN CHILDRENS FUND: $350 · Human ServicesHospitality House: $350 · Housing & ShelterHIGHLINE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $250 · Health
Education$502,000Recreation & Sports$227,000Other$33,000Food & Nutrition$3,500Human Services$3,350Housing & Shelter$350Health$250

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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $457,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTARFIRE SPORTS: $227,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF HIGHLINE: $6,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetHIGHLINE AREA FOOD BANK: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetART WITH HEART: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHospitality House: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLINE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $250 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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Gerard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gerard Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gerard Foundation 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 14 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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