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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.

$192k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$988kEducation$637kReligion$180kYouth Development$171kAnimals$99kRecreation & Sports$81kFood & Nutrition$44kArts & Culture$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $168k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY$10,000
NATIONAL MILL DOG RESCUE$10,000
OLD ELM SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
LAKE FOREST ACADEMY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHFIELD PARKS FDN: $50k → 6%THE RUTH PROJECT MINISTERIES: $4k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $800 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $400 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%YOUTH SERVICE GLENVIEW NBK: $2k → 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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 39 repeat orgs$558k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +44% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
68

Total granted

$1.7M
$455k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+44%

Still filing today

46%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • BH
    Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $171k · revenue +186%
  • ES
    EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $143k · revenue +114%
  • BR
    BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $104k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • ES
    EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $119k
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE UNIV HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • NP
    NORTHFIELD PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -85%
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
Furman University

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.

Education
2
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
3
Lehigh University

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…

Education
4
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
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

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

Education
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Delaware Valley University

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…

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10
DePauw University

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
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/47
Grantees still filing
36/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $475,000 · OtherBRAIN CHEMISTRY LABSNORTHFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH: $180,000 · OtherNORTHFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCHBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $171,000 · OtherBethesda Hospital Foundation IncEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $118,511 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONCIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $75,000 · Other+85 more: $707,605 · Other+85 moreEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $142,950 · EducationEVANS SCHOL…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…The Trustees of Princeton University: $14,400 · EducationThe Trustee…GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 · Education+6 more: $10,119 · EducationBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $103,500 · HealthCRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,050 · Health+2 more: $1,750 · HealthNORTHFIELD PARKS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Ruth Project Ministries: $3,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,300 · Human ServicesNational Mill Dog Rescue: $42,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $42,000 · Food & NutritionTHE IWFS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $25,000 · Animals
Other$1,727,116Education$237,969Health$172,300Human Services$57,800Recreation & Sports$47,000Food & Nutrition$44,500Animals$25,000

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 budgetBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $171,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $142,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $103,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetNORTHFIELD PARKS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $42,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNational Mill Dog Rescue: $42,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetINTER-MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $31,500 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $31,005 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $21,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER: $19,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC: $16,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $14,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORA PROJECT: $11,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HEROS FLY: $8,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE FOREST ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD ELM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IWFS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $1,919 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIFESPACE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTARTINGBLOC NFP: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM GOLF ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY REHABILITATION CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice by the Sea Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA VAUGHAN CHAPTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHFIELD PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Souder Family Foundat…Baxter International …AbbVie FoundationJosephine P & John J …Stearns Family Charit…The Nalen FoundationW L Lyons Brown Jr Ch…The Gorter Family Fou…Patrick G and Shirley…Jewish Federation of …Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Chicago Community TrustIL22.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James L Garard Jr Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James L Garard Jr Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 James L Garard Jr Charitable Tr 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 116 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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