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Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$91k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2026
39
Organizations funded FY2025
5%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
34 to 44
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
11
Total assets, FY2026
$1.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 5% of the organizations Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving40$91k10%
FY202539$69k5%
FY202442$69k7%
FY202344$75k14%
FY202241$78k17%
FY202134$72k9%
FY202037$77k14%
FY201934$73k21%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$207kReligion$164kHealth$94kInternational$81kHuman Services$48kHousing & Shelter$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Lamp Foundation Inc$56,50082%
Beyond the Walls Inc$25,00091%
The Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc$24,50080%
Friends of Lantern Hill Inc$17,50063%
Market Street Mission Inc$14,5006n/a
Family Promise of Monmouth County Inc$13,00042%
Thomas Jefferson University$12,000100%
Lexington Center for Recovery Inc$10,50030%
Furniture Assist Inc$10,000100%
Montclair Ambulance Unit$10,000100%
Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($450k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Lamp Foundation Inc: $56,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBeyond the Walls Inc: $25,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetThe Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc: $24,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Lantern Hill Inc: $17,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetFamily Promise of Monmouth County Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $12,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetLexington Center for Recovery Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFurniture Assist Inc: $10,000 over 10y, 0.4% of budgetMontclair Ambulance Unit: $10,000 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetKing's Daughters and King's Sons - First Circle: $9,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSeton Hall University: $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBuildon Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Ground a New Jersey Non Profit Corporation: $6,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Academy of Periodontology: $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVet R E S T: $5,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLefty Classic Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSt Christopher's Inn Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetEva's Village Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeneration to Generation Network Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEric Larosa Memorial Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLunch Break Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBancroft a New Jersey Non Profit Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Anselm College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson

How much does Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson give?
Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson reported 40 grants totaling $90,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 44 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (31%), Religion (25%), Health (14%).
Who are Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: The Lamp Foundation Inc ($57k), Beyond the Walls Inc ($25k), The Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc ($25k).
Does Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Investors Foundation Inc, Verizon Foundation.
Where is Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson based?
Lewis M Gabbe Foundation Inc Co James G Mortenson is based in NJ.

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 73 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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