· Private foundation
Gradison Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNTAIN PROJECTS | $20,000 |
| OPERA LAFAYETTE | $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 |
| HOPELINK | $3,000 |
| HEATHER ABBOTT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| VINA MOSES CENTER | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINC | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GR WASHINGTON | $2,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTIBRATE | $1,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
- JIJLEP INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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…
How this is measured
107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gradison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gradison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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