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Louis Henry Gross Sponsorship Fdn at a glance

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Louis Henry Gross Sponsorship Fdn

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.

$249k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.0MScience & Tech$20kEnvironment$14k
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$16,200
Individual grant recipient$16,200
Individual grant recipient$16,200
Individual grant recipient$16,200
Individual grant recipient$13,000
Individual grant recipient$13,000
Individual grant recipient$13,000
Individual grant recipient$13,000
Individual grant recipient$13,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
VINCENT ADAMS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SMITH COLLEGE: $17k → 12%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND: $13k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $13k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $20k → 14%STONEY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $26k → 7%MARIST COLLEGE: $29k → 9%SUNY COBLESKILL: $13k → 10%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%UNIVESRITY AT BUFFALO: $50k → 13%SUNY ONEONTA: $18k → 13%SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL: $14k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $14k → 14%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $37k → 14%SUNY DELHI: $23k → 15%SUNY CORTLAND: $19k → 15%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $20k → 16%SOORYA THIAGARAJAN: $16k → 16%SUNY NEW PALTZ UNIVERSITY: $23k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $15k → 11%TAYLOR CASE: $13k → 12%EMILY MEYER: $16k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $28k → 7%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $14k → 16%ISABELLA SPAIRANA: $13k → 10%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 19%NORA MILLER: $13k → 9%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $18k → 17%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $23k → 11%UNIVESRITY AT BUFFALO: $38k → 13%GIANNA BARRINGER: $16k → 13%AMAIYA THOMPSON: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $32k → 14%SUNY CORTLAND: $18k → 15%BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $19k → 7%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $21k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY: $13k → 14%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $14k → 18%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $17k → 11%EVE OATHOUT: $16k → 11%SAGE COLLEGE OF ALBANY: $14k → 11%RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $14k → 11%NAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $16k → 14%ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY: $17k → 14%SEE ATTACHED FILE FOR DISTRIBUTIONS: $216k → 13%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

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
NC
SC
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 31 repeat orgs$705k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
50

Total granted

$1.0M
$456k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+19%

Still filing today

42%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • RS
    RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +42%
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    4× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +25%
  • MU
    MARIST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $38k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASE
    one grant, 2019 · $26k
  • SD
    SUNY DELHI
    one grant, 2022 · $23k
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +0%
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
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
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
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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11
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
12
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. 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

42 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. 42 of the 113 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
34/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $107,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $97,400 · OtherUNIVERSITY AT ALBANYUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $63,450 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLANDHUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $48,625 · OtherSUNY CORTLAND: $46,825 · Other+67 more: $810,399 · Other+67 moreRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $68,125 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGERensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $64,000 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMARIST UNIVERSITY: $37,600 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITYRochester Institute of Technology: $35,100 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES: $29,500 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College: $27,500 · EducationITHACA COLLEGE: $26,500 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $25,500 · EducationCornell University: $22,000 · Education+31 more: $304,825 · Education+31 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,173,699Education$640,650Community Improvement$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $68,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $64,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $37,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $35,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES: $29,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $26,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $20,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $18,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $15,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAZENOVIA COLLEGE: $12,675 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $10,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $9,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $9,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $8,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $8,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $8,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $4,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $250 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 RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Central New York Comm…Gazin Norbert L Educa…Jessie H Baker Educat…Conrad H & Anna B Gil…Community Foundation …JM McDonald Foundatio…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Central New York Community Foundation IncNY17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fund · Community Foundation of Orange and Sulli · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Louis Henry Gross Sponsorship Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis Henry Gross Sponsorship Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 113 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home