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R S Gernon Trust at a glance

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R S Gernon Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$109k
Granted FY2026still arriving
21
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$143kHousing & Shelter$116kHealth$81kArts & Culture$62kYouth Development$53kEnvironment$28kEducation$21kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2026 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADONNA PLACE INC$8,000
UNITED COMMUNITY & FAMILY SERVICES$8,000
MARTIN HOUSE INC$7,000
SAFE FUTURES INC$6,000
THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL COMMUNITY ACTION$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW NEW ENGLAND$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT$5,000
THE ECHO CANCER FOUNDATION INC$5,000
LUMIBILITY INC$5,000
STEPS INC$5,000
READ TO GROW INC$5,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF CONNECTICUT INC$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT$5,000
OPERATION FUEL$5,000
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MADONNA PLACE: $10k → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $8k → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $8k → 9%MADONNA PLACE: $8k → 9%MADONNA PLACE: $8k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $8k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $8k → 9%STEPS Inc: $5k → 9%STEPS INC: $5k → 9%STEPS INC: $5k → 9%STEPS INC: $5k → 9%STEPS Inc: $5k → 9%FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN CT: $10k → 9%FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN CT: $5k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $8k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $7k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $6k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $5k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $5k → 9%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$605k · 32 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
5

Total granted

$605k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+23%

Still filing today

69%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MP
    Madonna Place Inc
    5× · 2021–2026 · $42k · revenue +60%
  • SF
    Safe Futures Inc
    5× · 2020–2026 · $31k · revenue +21%
  • MH
    Martin House Inc
    5× · 2021–2026 · $31k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +23%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH INC
    one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • TC
    THE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2025 · $5k · 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
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

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2
Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc

Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.

Housing & Shelter
3
Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc

Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.

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4
The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

Health
5
Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal
6
Children in Placement Inc

The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.

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7
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
8
Arc of Greater New Haven Inc

To provide quality services to meet selected needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the greater new haven region.

Education
9
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
10
Connecticut Association for the Education of Young Children Inc

To enhance the care, education, and development of Connecticut's young children, in the context of family, and community; and to support the professionals who care for them. CTAEYC provides training to increase the competencies of…

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11
New Opportunities Inc

To improve the quality of life for economically disadvantaged individuals by providing the necessary resources to increase their standard of living, foster self improvement, and to maximize self empowerment.

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12
Sarah Tuxis Residential Services in

To provide living accomodations in residential settings for developmentally disabled individuals in the shoreline area of connecticut.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community and Family Servicesinc; the most unlike its peers is Rose City Learning Center. 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $25,000 · OtherGirl Scouts of Connecticut IncPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $21,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC: $21,000 · OtherUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINCTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL: $20,000 · OtherTHAMES VALLEY COUNCILTHE SALVATION ARMY: $20,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE: $18,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACECATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC: $15,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INCFURNITURE BANK OF SE CT: $15,000 · OtherFURNITURE BANK OF SE CTTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL COMMUNITY ACTION: $15,000 · OtherTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL COMMUNITY ACTIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CT: $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CTHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $15,000 · OtherHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INCUnited Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut: $15,000 · OtherUnited Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Conn…Individual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherARTREACH INC: $13,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherTHAMES RIVER COMM SERVICE INC: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $13,000 · OtherMadonna Place Inc: $42,000 · Human ServicesMadonna Place IncSafe Futures Inc: $31,000 · Human ServicesSafe Futures IncSTEPS Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS IncThames River Community Service Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesThames River Community…FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEAST CONNECTICUT INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesFURNITURE BANK OF SOUT…THE EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED: $27,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EASTERN CO…NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $17,180 · Arts & CultureNORWICH HISTOR…CONNECTICUT STORYTELLING CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT ST…ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARN…THE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICU…OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $33,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION …ALWAYS HOME INC: $26,000 · Housing & ShelterALWAYS HOM…Martin House Inc: $31,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $6,000 · HealthECHO CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthREAD TO GROW INC: $18,000 · EducationRose City Learning Center: $10,000 · EducationOTIS LIBRARY: $3,454 · EducationBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentLUMIBILITY INC: $7,500 · Employment
Other$275,500Human Services$127,500Arts & Culture$79,180Housing & Shelter$59,000Health$42,000Education$31,454Youth Development$15,000Employment$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMadonna Place Inc: $42,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $33,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $31,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMartin House Inc: $31,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED: $27,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetALWAYS HOME INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $17,180 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT STORYTELLING CENTER INC: $15,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetThames River Community Service Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEAST CONNECTICUT INC: $14,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetARTREACH INC: $13,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRose City Learning Center: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLUMIBILITY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOTIS LIBRARY: $3,454 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Chelsea Groton Founda…Dime Bank Foundation …The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Liberty Bank Foundati…William Caspar Graust…Eversource Energy Fou…Eastern Ct Savings Ba…The Edward and Mary L…Centreville Savings B…The Pfizer Foundation…Elsie a Brown Fund Inc
Chelsea Groton FoundationCT51× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Elsie a Brown Fund Inc

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 R S Gernon Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R S Gernon Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • United Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut: 85% of income from government
  • Artreach Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Lumibility Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Thames River Community Service Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Martin House Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Operation Fuel Incorporated: 43% of income from government
  • United Community and Family Servicesinc: 26% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Madonna Place Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Steps Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut: 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
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 39 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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