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James L Garard Jr Charitable Tr
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 $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHFIELD TWP FOOD PANTRY | $42,000 |
| CC OF FL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $41,250 |
| THE LITTLE CLUB SCHOLARSHIP | $25,000 |
| NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $20,005 |
| NORTHFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL MILL DOG RESCUE | $10,000 |
| WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LAKE FOREST ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| OLD ELM SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| THE RUTH PROJECT MINISTERIES | $3,500 |
| THE IWFS FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FDN | $2,000 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +53% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 8 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- BHBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $171k · revenue +186%
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $143k · revenue +114%
- BRBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $104k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $119k
- NSNORTH SHORE UNIV HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $50k
- NSNORTH SHORE UNIV HEALTH SYS FDNone grant, 2018 · $50k
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Education and Research
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helping Heros Fly. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 116 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 Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds INTER-MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds USSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds THE NORA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HELPING HEROS FLY ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Souder Family Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Josephine P & John J Louis Foundation Inc · Stearns Family Charitable Fund · The Nalen Foundation · W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 James L Garard Jr Charitable Tr 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Wayside House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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