· Private foundation
Gerry Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $250k+4 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bethel Woods Center for the Arts | $5,500,000 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering | $4,000,000 |
| Sullivan 180 Inc | $1,700,000 |
| Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York | $250,000 |
| Cornell University | $30,000 |
| NYS Troops PBA Signal 30 Benefit Fund | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,125 |
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 (FY17–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 47% of Gerry Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 54%.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
102 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 96 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BWBethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +87% · 33% of their budget
- S1Sullivan 180 Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue ×14 · 77% of their budget
- SCSULLIVAN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +97% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +45%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $40k
- TCTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +56%
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.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
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Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
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To hold and manage open space property for the public's benefit and assist in the preservation and stewardship of the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities in greene county, ny and surrounding areas.
The schoharie river center provides cultural and educational programming about the ecology and environment of the schoharie and mohawk watersheds and the people who live within it.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
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Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 249 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Sullivan 180 Inc ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI ↗
- Who funds SULLIVAN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Daniel Pierce Library ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HASC INC ↗
- Who funds MID-HUDSON PATTERN FOR PROGRESSINC ↗
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: Beaverkill Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Orange and Sulli · The Musser Fund · The Dyson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerry Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerry Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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