How much did JAMES R GARDNER FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of JAMES R GARDNER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

martha's vineyardmuseumart

2019

artvineyard

2020

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2021

—

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$960

Median grant

States reached

$145k

Total assets

Largest grants

MISC CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 200$960
VGC FDN$500

02The need

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 (FY20–20, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$23k · 15 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$23k

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%

+8%

Still filing today

40%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman 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

MV
MARTHAS VINEYARD ART ASSOCIATION
3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +76%
VF
VGC FDN
3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +10%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
3× · 2018–2020 · $1k · revenue +182%

Funded once

LA
LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -2%
AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2022 · $2k
FA
FUNDING ARTS NETWORK
one grant, 2022 · $1k

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.

Museum of Fine Arts

The museum of fine arts houses and preserves preeminent collections and aspires to serve a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art in order to encourage inquiry and to heighten public understanding and…

Arts & Culture

The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications and educational activities.

Arts & Culture

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art builds community around art.

Arts & Culture

Rourke Art Gallery Museum

To display, collect, and preserve art of our time.

Arts & Culture

National Academy of Design

The national academy promotes the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education

Minnesota Marine Art Museum

The minnesota marine art museum engages visitors in meaningful visual art experiences through education and exhibitions that explore the ongoing and historic human relationship with water.

Arts & Culture

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to promote understanding and appreciation of the arts, to collect and exhibit significant works of art, & to manage and support an institution where these works of art may be housed and displayed for the…

Arts & Culture

Marin Society of Artists

Marin Society of Artists seeks to foster an environment where all people grow andthrive through the arts. Dedicated since 1927 to promoting the arts in the community, MSA works with non-profit organizations and others to provide an array…

Arts & Culture

Peninsula Fine Arts Center Inc

To promote the appreciation of the fine arts and to conform with accepted museum standard by maintaining and operating an arts center.

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The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation

To provide a cultural center for the benefit of East Los Angeles College and it's community through the collection and exhibition of art.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Latin American Art

The museum of latin american arts expands knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american and latino art through its collection, ground-breaking exhibitions, stimulating educational programs, and engaging cultural…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Art Club and the most unlike its peers is Featherstone Center for the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

10/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$24,696Arts & Culture$8,608Philanthropy$2,800Environment$1,200Human Services$700

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.

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.

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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 organisation JAMES R GARDNER FOUNDATION INC 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MARTHAS VINEYARD ART ASSOCIATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~35 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +76% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 042199875 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MARTHAS VINEYARD ART ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 35 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to James R Gardner Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to James R Gardner Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JAMES R GARDNER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James R Gardner Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

JAMES R GARDNER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James R Gardner Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph