· Private foundation
Gourlay Mary Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLS EYE FOUNDATION | $5,600 |
| VISIONLINK | $5,000 |
| CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- RSROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND3× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +48%
- SFSIGHTS FOR HOPE3× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +11%
THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- NFNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF PAone grant, 2020 · $8k · 29% of their budget
- TPTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +41%
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.
Established in 1832 as a gift from james wills, a philadelphia merchant, to the city of philadelphia, wills eye's mission is to provide excellence in ophthalmic care to the community in need. see schedule o.
Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…
The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
The mission of western pennsylvania school for blind children is to nurture the unique abilities of individuals with blindness and visual impairment through educational excellence and a lifetime of learning.
Miami lighthouse through education, training, research, vision enhancement and as a center for learning provides hope, confidence, and independence for people of all ages. for nearly a century, miami lighthouse for the blind has been…
The mission of the new york institute for special education is to provide quality educational programs and support to students and families in a safe caring environment to awaken and inspire student curiosity, lifelong learning and…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Royer-Greaves School for Blind and the most unlike its peers is Chestnut Hill Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 VisionLink ↗
- Who funds ROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND ↗
- Who funds SIGHTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF PA ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gourlay Mary Charitable Trust 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.
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.