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Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$11MEducation$8.0MHealth$3.6MEnvironment$589kPhilanthropy$221kInternational$39kHuman Services$32kPublic Benefit$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $385k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.3M
$200,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$1,200,000
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC$1,110,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD MUSEUM INC$800,000
MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION$790,000
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$766,180
PUTNEY SCHOOL$600,000
BLUEDOT INSTITUTE INC$200,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$75,000
WAVE HILL INCORPORATED$59,800
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION$50,000
RON RAPPAPORT SCHOLAR FUND$25,000
VOICES OF ASCENSION$15,000
GROTON SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RISING GROUND: $500 → 20%RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 28%AQUINNAHGAY HEAD COMMUNITY: $500 → 8%CHILDREN'S AID: $2k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $4k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 62 repeat orgs$707k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
70

Total granted

$22M
$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+11%

Still filing today

74%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +14%
  • PS
    PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +17%
  • CM
    CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • SC
    STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING
    one grant, 2021 · $160k · revenue +9%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $105k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
5
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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6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
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
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
12
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverdale Neighborhood House Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Harpswell Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local History MuseumsCancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesPublic Library OperationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%67%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/102
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,463

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.

04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 135 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
64/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Musical Arts Association — $5,200,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationNew York Historical Society — $3,625,520 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical SocietyMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC — $967,500 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INCMuseum of Modern Art — $348,150 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $248,600 · Arts & CulturePUTNEY SCHOOL INC — $3,607,500 · OtherPUTNEY SCHOOL INCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $1,600,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONGROTON ANNUAL FUND — $220,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY — $215,000 · Other+71 more — $511,188 · Other+71 moreSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC — $2,550,000 · EducationSAY YES CLEVELAND S…SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE — $760,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLL…BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $480,000 · EducationBANK STREET COLLEGE…+16 more — $103,250 · EducationCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $1,930,000 · HealthCHILD MIND…STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING — $160,000 · HealthSTERN CENT…+5 more — $5,100 · HealthSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $201,000 · EnvironmentBLUEDOT INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · EnvironmentWAVE HILL INCORPORATED — $165,800 · Environment+6 more — $4,750 · EnvironmentTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $30,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $2,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $2,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $1,500 · International+4 more — $2,000 · InternationalTHE HARPSWELL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$10,389,770Other$6,153,688Education$3,893,250Health$2,095,100Environment$571,550International$37,500Public Benefit$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $5,200,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $3,625,520 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC — $3,607,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetSAY YES CLEVELAND SCHOLARSHIP INC — $2,550,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $1,930,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC — $967,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE — $760,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $480,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $348,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $220,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $201,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED — $165,800 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING — $160,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC — $34,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARPSWELL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES OF ASCENSION INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRIVERDALE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWEST TISBURY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC — $10,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $2,088 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTURY ASSOCIATION ARCHIVES FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

If Hummingbird Founda…The Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundNew Yankee Stadium Co…Booth Ferris Foundati…Pinkerton FoundationMartha's Vineyard Ban…Prospect Hill Foundat…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The New York Communit…Stonehouse IncChutorian-Semler Fami…
If Hummingbird Foundation IncCT19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Pinkerton Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Prospect Hill Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Stonehouse Inc · Chutorian-Semler Family Foundation

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 Gund Geoffrey Fdn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
  • Stern Center for Language and Learning — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Gund Geoffrey Fdn?

Find your warmest path to Gund Geoffrey Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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