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Gund Geoffrey Fdn

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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 (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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverdale Neighborhood House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 135 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
62/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBLUEDOT INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 44% 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 PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,088 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $1,250 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.

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.

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

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 Gund Geoffrey Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gund Geoffrey Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 135 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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