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Gleason Family Foundation at a glance

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Gleason Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$4.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$51MCrime & Legal$5.7MPublic Benefit$3.5MScience & Tech$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MSocial Science$675kArts & Culture$500kYouth Development$300kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+6 grants · $10M
$3,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$117M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE AWARENESS FOUNDATION$4,650,000
NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE AWARENESS FOUNDATION$4,395,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$500,000
EDCHOICE$400,000
RIT - KATE GLESON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING$260,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$250,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$200,000
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION$31,110
FACE$6,000
GLEASON FUNDED LIFE BENEFIT PLAN$4,920
DIXON MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL$3,500
HORIZONS AT THE HARLEY SCHOOL$2,000
HARLEY SCHOOL$2,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC$1,500
BUFFALO SEMINARY$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $953k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS BAY AREA: $100k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS BAY AREA: $100k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS BAY AREA: $100k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS BAY AREA: $100k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS BAY AREA: $100k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59M · 37 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
22

Total granted

$59M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+37%

Still filing today

73%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyAnimalsInternationalHealthOther
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +57%
  • EI
    EdChoice Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +43%
  • RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • US
    UNCOMMON SCHOOLS - ROCHESTER PREP HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M
  • MP
    MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +59%
  • US
    UNCOMMON SCHOOLS (FORGIVENESS OF FINAL LOAN BALANCE)
    one grant, 2020 · $457k
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Boston Architectural College

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

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3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
7
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
8
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
9
Furman University

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.

Education
10
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National School Choice Awareness 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.
04the grantee network

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 65 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
34/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $36,481,080 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $1,025,000 · PhilanthropyUNCOMMON SCHOOLS - ROCHESTER PREP HIGH SCHOOL: $3,000,000 · OtherUNCOMMON SCHOOLS - …ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - KGCOE: $1,560,000 · OtherROCHESTER INSTITUTE…CHOICE MEDIA: $1,425,000 · OtherCHOICE MEDIANATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE: $875,000 · OtherNATIONAL RIGHT TO W…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER-SIMON SCHOOL: $525,000 · OtherUNCOMMON SCHOOLS (FORGIVENESS OF FINAL LOAN BALANCE): $457,142 · OtherASSOC OF AMERICAN EDUCATORS FOUNDATION: $455,000 · OtherMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $500,000 · Other+33 more: $2,148,828 · Other+33 moreEdChoice Inc: $3,200,000 · EducationEdChoice IncRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $2,500,000 · EducationRELAY GRADUATE…THE REASON FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationTHE REASON FOU…National Merit Scholarship Corporation: $468,895 · EducationNational Merit…The California Teachers Empowerment Network: $300,000 · Education+7 more: $933,072 · Education+7 moreINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $3,900,000 · Civil RightsMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $675,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $575,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $535,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $425,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $350,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $40,000 · Public BenefitAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $953,000 · Human ServicesPacific Legal Foundation: $875,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$37,506,080Other$10,945,970Education$8,151,967Civil Rights$3,900,000Public Benefit$2,600,000Human Services$953,000Crime & Legal$875,000

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 budgetNATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $36,481,080 over 4y, 94% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $3,900,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $3,200,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $2,500,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHOICE MEDIA: $1,425,000 over 5y, 85% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $953,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $875,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $870,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $675,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $575,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $535,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $468,895 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $425,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $350,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe California Teachers Empowerment Network: $300,000 over 6y, 94% of budgetAssociation of American Educators Founda: $275,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $260,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION ACTION GROUP FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $228,572 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARENT CHOICE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $155,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE HALL: $151,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFACE Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetATLANTIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE HARLEY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIXON MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParker's Animal Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLARKSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $350 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
  • Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds CHOICE MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
  • Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds The California Teachers Empowerment Network ↗
  • Who funds Association of American Educators Founda ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION ACTION GROUP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARENT CHOICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HALL ↗

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.

Walton Family Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Walton Family Foundation IncAR12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Gleason Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gleason Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 65 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home