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Gordon & Llura Gund 1993 Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+13 grants · $8.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EARTH JUSTICE | $2,000,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $882,000 |
| THE BOLLES SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE | $500,000 |
| UVM FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| OSA CONSERVATION | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450,000 |
| AUTISM SPEAKS | $430,000 |
| CENTER FOR MIND BODY MEDICINE | $400,000 |
| SHATTERPROOF | $350,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND | $250,000 |
| ACHILLES INTERNATIONAL | $250,000 |
| FULL FRAME INITIATIVE | $200,000 |
| RESEARCH AMERICA | $200,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $700k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
EARTHJUSTICE8× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +82%
THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC4× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +49%- TBTHE BOLLES SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +51%
Funded once
- UMUNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER OF PRINCENTONone grant, 2018 · $300k
- TNTHE NANTUCKET PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $183k
- UHUPENN - HEART FAILURE ADVANCED PRACTICEone grant, 2023 · $182k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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 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…
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education and Research
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fight for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Future Vision 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 70 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOLLES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RESEARCHAMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON NATIONAL ROWING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SPAY FIRST INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gordon & Llura Gund 1993 Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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