· Private foundation
Grandison 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS HEALTH FUND | $25,000 |
| COMIC RELIEF INC | $25,000 |
| HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE | $20,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MIND TRUST | $5,000 |
| TRUDEAU INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| POYNTER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| RED CROSS LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND ADIRONDACKS | $5,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,500 |
| MCGOVERN INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| TREES FOR THE FUTURE | $1,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF ART | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY19–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC5× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +2%
- HSHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE5× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +289%
- TMTHE MIND TRUST INC6× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +853%
Funded once
- CRCOMIC RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $50k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $5k
- TRTHE RESEARCH AND RECOGNITION PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue ×158
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.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 51 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 The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds TRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE ↗
- Who funds THE MIND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds WEBB HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESEARCH AND RECOGNITION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS ↗
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: Staritch Foundation Inc · Cloudsplitter Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grandison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grandison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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