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Grant and Lara Gund Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.1MInternational$1.7MEnvironment$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MHealth$416kPublic Benefit$221kFood & Nutrition$115kReligion$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $990k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$820k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIFTUP COMMUNITIES: $20k → 14%LIFTUP COMMUNITIES: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 48 repeat orgs$597k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
39

Total granted

$7.2M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+33%

Still filing today

58%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GROTON SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $486k · revenue +21%
  • TC
    THE COLORADO COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +39%
  • PS
    PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • LS
    LAND'S SAKE FARM
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • KS
    Kellogg School of Management- Northwestern U
    one grant, 2017 · $39k
  • ND
    NORTHWESTERN - DEAN'S DISCRETIONARY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Western New England University

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…

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
5
Bentley University

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
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
9
Northeastern University
Education
10
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
35/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $1,050,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENTUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - MATCH: $800,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - MATCHIndividual grant recipient: $450,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRAGE: $250,000 · OtherRAGEUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - R1: $200,000 · OtherTHE CARROLL SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $180,000 · Other+55 more: $1,091,650 · Other+55 moreROOT CAPITAL INC: $1,610,000 · InternationalROOT CAPITAL INC+3 more: $66,000 · InternationalGROTON SCHOOL: $486,300 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $330,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGEMILTON ACADEMY: $320,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMYPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $263,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $100,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows o…THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $86,000 · Education+4 more: $66,000 · EducationRepresentUs: $160,000 · Public BenefitRepresentUs Education Fund: $60,000 · Public BenefitBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $95,000 · HealthFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC: $33,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC: $20,000 · HealthNEURODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $10,000 · Health+5 more: $15,000 · HealthSHELBURNE FARMS: $50,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · EnvironmentMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $6,000 · EnvironmentNorthwestern University: $19,250 · Recreation & SportsUSA HOCKEY INC: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,021,650International$1,676,000Education$1,651,300Public Benefit$220,000Health$208,000Environment$97,000Recreation & Sports$31,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROOT CAPITAL INC: $1,610,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $486,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $330,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $320,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $263,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRepresentUs: $160,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $86,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie: $40,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetTHE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT UP COMMUNITIES: $30,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetElon University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $19,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEURODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUSA HOCKEY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATTS 2 BOSTON FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREDgen Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpening Act Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAspen Wildfire Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHands Together Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sumbandila co Antoinette Quarshie ↗
  • 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 SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗

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.

Zachary and Lindsey G…Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Gordon and Llura Gund…Barr FoundationThe New York Communit…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Verizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…
Zachary and Lindsey Gund FoundationMA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Grant and Lara Gund Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grant and Lara Gund Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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