· Private foundation
Gourlay Mary Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLS EYE FOUNDATION | $5,600 |
| VISIONLINK | $5,000 |
| CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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.
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
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 VisionLink ↗
- Who funds ROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND ↗
- Who funds SIGHTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF PA ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gourlay Mary Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gourlay Mary Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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