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Peter R Gimbel and Elga Andersen-Gimbel Memorial Trust at a glance

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Peter R Gimbel and Elga Andersen-Gimbel Memorial Trust

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.

$185k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$383kArts & Culture$285kYouth Development$242kInternational$110kFood & Nutrition$105kHealth$65k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY MEAL ON WHEELS$30,000
FOOD BANK OF NYC$30,000
COSTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION - MD$25,000
CERES$25,000
SECOND STAGE THEATER$25,000
LIGHTHOUSE GUILD$20,000
OCEANA$15,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BOSTON$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BOSTON: $20k → 16%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $40k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NYC: $30k → 28%OCEANA: $60k → 14%COSTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION - MD: $40k → 6%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BOSTON: $15k → 16%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $20k → 17%OCEANA: $30k → 14%COSTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION - MD: $25k → 6%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BOSTON: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $20k → 17%OCEANA: $25k → 14%COSTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION - MD: $20k → 6%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BOSTON: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $20k → 17%OCEANA: $15k → 14%COSTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION - MD: $20k → 6%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BOSTON: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $15k → 17%OCEANA: $15k → 14%COSTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION - MD: $8k → 6%CERES: $25k → 16%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTE: $50k → 17%OCEANA: $15k → 14%CERES: $25k → 16%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTE: $45k → 17%CITY MEAL ON WHEELS: $30k → 17%CONCERN WORLDWIDE: $15k → 17%BENT ON LEARNING: $138k → 17%CITY MEAL ON WHEELS: $10k → 17%BENT ON LEARNING: $69k → 17%CITY MEAL ON WHEELS: $10k → 17%BENT ON LEARNING: $35k → 17%CITY MEAL ON WHEELS: $10k → 17%PROPUBLICA: $20k → 17%CITY MEAL ON WHEELS: $10k → 17%PROPUBLICA: $10k → 17%CITY MEAL ON WHEELS: $5k → 17%SECOND STAGE THEATER: $100k → 17%SECOND STAGE THEATER: $25k → 17%SECOND STAGE THEATER: $25k → 17%SECOND STAGE THEATER: $25k → 17%SECOND STAGE THEATER: $25k → 17%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$1.1M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
0%

Still filing today

82%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TS
    THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +185%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +60%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CW
    CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · 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
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
4
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
8
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
9
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
10
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
11
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
12
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pro Publica Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OCEANA INC: $160,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE…CERES INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentCERES INCBENT ON LEARNING INC: $242,000 · Youth DevelopmentBENT ON LEARNING INCTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND STAGE THEA…PRO PUBLICA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCCOSTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION - MD: $112,500 · OtherCOSTAL CONSERVA…LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $55,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE GUIL…International Rescue Committee INC: $95,050 · InternationalInternatio…CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $15,000 · InternationalCONCERN WO…CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $75,000 · Food & NutritionChildren's Hospital Corporation: $65,000 · HealthFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$270,000Youth Development$242,000Arts & Culture$230,000Other$167,500International$110,050Food & Nutrition$75,000Health$65,000Community Improvement$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBENT ON LEARNING INC: $242,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $200,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOCEANA INC: $160,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $95,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCERES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $15,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Peter R Gimbel and Elga Andersen-Gimbel Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter R Gimbel and Elga Andersen-Gimbel Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Peter R Gimbel and Elga Andersen-Gimbel Memorial Trust 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 13 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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