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Gradison Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERA LAFAYETTE | $20,000 |
| MOUNTAIN PROJECTS | $20,000 |
| LEAF | $10,000 |
| PARKMONT SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR APPLACHIAN GIRLS | $6,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| PAGE ONE OF PAGE COUNTY | $3,500 |
| HEATHER ABBOTT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HOPELINK | $3,000 |
| MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| VINA MOSES CENTER | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GR WASHINGTON | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINC | $2,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTIBRATE | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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.
108 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 64 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MPMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +90%
- OLOpera Lafayette8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +51%
- PSPARKMONT SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +40%
Funded once
LEAF GLOBAL ARTSone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -50%- CCCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -14%
- AACLUone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Projects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Waynesville Association. 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 40 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 — 3% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 199 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 MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Opera Lafayette ↗
- Who funds PARKMONT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAGE ONE OF PAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Partnership for Appalachian Girls Education ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC ↗
- Who funds MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEAF GLOBAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTHCARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds VINA MOSES WELFARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds HEATHER ABBOTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS ↗
- Who funds THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD ARTS REGIONAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds STONE SOUP CORVALLIS 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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The John C Harmon Family Foundation · Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc · Robert Gould Foundation Inc · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005
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 Gradison 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.
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center — 8% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Danbury Music Centre — 1% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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