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Point Gammon Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$621k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$4.7MArts & Culture$4.7MEnvironment$3.5MRecreation & Sports$653kAnimals$538kPhilanthropy$202kHealth$191kYouth Development$188kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $783k
  • $250k+1 grant · $621k
$47,600
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NY BOTANICAL GARDEN$621,486
PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH$125,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$105,500
PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
ONE PLYMPTON PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC$100,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$77,000
CHILDRENS GOLF FOUNDATION INC$75,500
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY$50,000
564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$50,000
MADISON SQUARE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION INC$50,000
PALM BEACH ZOO$50,000
MIAMI CITY BALLET$47,600
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$35,000
FLORIDA ALLIANCE OF PLANNED$25,000
GLADES ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–18, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $900 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
WI
MI
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
GA
FL

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 — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 40 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
22

Total granted

$14M
$533k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+42%

Still filing today

73%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $757k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • MS
    MASTERS SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.4M · revenue +60%
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.9M · revenue +40%
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
    one grant, 2021 · $175k
  • THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +108%
  • TF
    THE FIRST TEE
    one grant, 2017 · $75k

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
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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3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
9
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
10
Manhattanville University

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

Education
11
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Pathways Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development CentersDance Arts OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Food PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%76%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,709

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASTERS SCHOOL — $3,412,000 · OtherMASTERS SCHOOLNY BOTANICAL GARDEN — $621,486 · OtherNY BOTANICAL GARDENNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL — $480,000 · OtherNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOLCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $200,500 · OtherLOST TREE FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Other+31 more — $891,690 · Other+31 moreNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $1,492,500 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INCNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $1,426,365 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $268,200 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INCThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $227,200 · Arts & CultureThe Preservation Foundation of …The Society of the Four Arts Inc — $216,500 · Arts & Culture564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $205,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $286,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $2,861,859 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GA…+4 more — $14,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $895,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL — $58,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL — $45,000 · Education+6 more — $73,521 · EducationTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $520,500 · Animals+2 more — $17,663 · AnimalsPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $150,000 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $5,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$5,805,676Arts & Culture$4,121,765Environment$2,875,859Education$1,071,521Animals$538,163Recreation & Sports$300,000Philanthropy$156,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASTERS SCHOOL — $3,412,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $2,861,859 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $1,492,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $1,426,365 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $895,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $520,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL — $480,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $268,200 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $227,200 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $216,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $205,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $200,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOne Plympton Preservation Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc — $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL — $58,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $57,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY — $52,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $51,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTY GOLF ASSN — $40,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlades Academy Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $10,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANCRAMDALE NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP COCKER RESCUE INC — $5,163 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKips Bay Boys & Girls Club — $4,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSRBA HISTORIC BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $2,021 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetConservancy Guardians USA Fund Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HYANNISPORT CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…John E Rovensky Chari…Community Foundation …National Philanthropi…The US Charitable Gif…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The New York Community TrustNY16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · John E Rovensky Charitable Trust 6388 F/K/A Ud Je Rovensky 2/28/89 Fdn · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 organization Point Gammon Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Children's Golf Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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: 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 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Point Gammon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Point Gammon Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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