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Gigi & Averell H Mortimer 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Health$309kArts & Culture$28kHuman Services$15kEducation$9kEnvironment$6kYouth Development$5kOther$18k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brandywire Conservancy & Museum of Art$15,000
PALM BEACH ZOO & CONSERVATION SOCIETY$10,000
COX SCIENCE CENTRE & AQUARIUM$10,000
TORY BURCH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE CENTRE FOR DISCOVERY$5,000
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$2,500
Orange County Historical Society$2,500
PECONIC LAND TRUST$2,500
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL$1,500
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%Tory Burch Foundation: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
3
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
5
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC — $305,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC+3 more — $3,750 · HealthBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON SENSE MEDIA — $2,500 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH ZOO & CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $10,000 · OtherNYU Langone Medical Center — $5,000 · OtherOrange County Historical Society — $2,500 · OtherTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesNew York University — $5,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · EducationVanderbilt University — $1,000 · EducationTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $600 · EnvironmentTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK — $5,000 · Youth Development
Health$308,750Arts & Culture$27,500Other$17,500Human Services$15,000Education$9,000Environment$5,600Youth Development$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC — $305,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Historical Society — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gigi & Averell H Mortimer 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gigi & Averell H Mortimer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gigi & Averell H Mortimer 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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