· Private foundation
Grant and Lara Gund Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $990k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAGE | $250,000 |
| ROOT CAPITAL | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - MATCH | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT | $150,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTUCKET FBO OUR HOUSE | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - R1 | $100,000 |
| MILTON ACADEMY | $80,000 |
| THE CARROLL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $60,000 |
| MEII OCULAR GENOMICS INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE - RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY AND BIOMATERIALS | $50,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - KELLOGG SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 29 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k 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
- RCROOT CAPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +8%
GROTON SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $486k · revenue +21%- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LSLAND'S SAKE FARMone grant, 2020 · $60k
- KSKellogg School of Management- Northwestern Uone grant, 2017 · $39k
- NDNORTHWESTERN - DEAN'S DISCRETIONARY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Education and Research
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie. 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 51 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 94 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 ROOT CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT 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: Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation · Barr Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Grant and Lara Gund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Root Capital Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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.