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Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
91
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of ROBERT DAVID LION GARDINER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $440k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+11 grants · $4.6M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$115M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,500,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$500,000
COOPER UNION FOR THE ADV OF SCIENCE$392,000
PBS FOUNDATION$333,334
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESV$333,333
GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND$250,000
THE HISTORY MAKERS$250,000
LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FND$250,000
GILDER LEHRMAN INST OF AMERICAN HIS$250,000
COOPER UNION FOR THE ADV OF SCIENCE$250,000
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY$250,000
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC$197,534
ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE$114,812
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$110,844
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$105,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND: $340k → 13%PBS FOUNDATION: $667k → 7%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC: $333k → 14%PBS FOUNDATION: $333k → 7%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $820k → 17%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESV: $333k → 14%PBS FOUNDATION: $333k → 7%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $753k → 17%PBS FOUNDATION: $333k → 7%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $319k → 17%BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $448k → 20%PBS FOUNDATION: $333k → 7%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $304k → 17%BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $376k → 20%PBS FOUNDATION: $333k → 7%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $300k → 17%BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $376k → 20%COOPER UNION FOR THE ADV OF SCIENCE: $392k → 17%COOPER UNION FOR THE ADV OF SCIENCE: $392k → 17%COOPER UNION FOR THE ADV OF SCIENCE: $392k → 17%COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF: $254k → 17%WEBB INSTITUTE: $383k → 6%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $320k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $315k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $315k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $330k → 17%NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1.5M → 17%NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $272k → 17%FRIENDS OF RAYNHAM HALL: $405k → 6%RAYNHAM HALL MUSEUM: $300k → 6%GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $350k → 17%MOLLOY COLLEGE: $398k → 6%MOLLOY COLLEGE: $394k → 6%MOLLOY COLLEGE: $356k → 6%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $500k → 7%MOLLOY COLLEGE: $352k → 6%ROSLYN LANDMARK SOCIETY: $422k → 6%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $539k → 6%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $536k → 6%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $482k → 6%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $350k → 6%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $311k → 6%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $302k → 6%MONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $392k → 7%YAPHANK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $300k → 7%THREE VILLAGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $350k → 7%LT MICHAEL MURPHY NAVAL SEAL MUSEU: $300k → 7%FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM: $452k → 7%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
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
DC

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$29M · 101 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
66

Total granted

$29M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+25%

Still filing today

70%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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 & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementScience & TechPhilanthropyOther

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

  • LI
    LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +0%
  • PBS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue ×12
  • MU
    MOLLOY UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.5M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • NT
    NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC
    one grant, 2023 · $333k
  • LM
    LT MICHAEL MURPHY NAVAL SEAL MUSEU
    one grant, 2018 · $300k
  • CU
    COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $254k

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.

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Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
4
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
5
Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and T

Educate the community on the history of newburgh bay and the highlands

Arts & Culture
6
Sharon Historical Society-Sharon Springs New York Inc

The mission of the Sharon Historical Society is to make all people aware of our history by linking the past with the present in order to inform them of our future. The Sharon Historical Society exists to inspire people's understanding that…

Arts & Culture
7
Maritime Industry Museum At Fort Schulyer

To operate and maintain suny maritime museum

Arts & Culture
8
Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture
9
Nassau County Museum of Art

The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…

Arts & Culture
10
Historical Society of Saratoga Springs

Preservation & maintenance collection

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11
Isle of Wight County Museum Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Friends of Garvies Point Museum and Preserve

Interpretation of regional geology, Native American culture and archaeology and Long Island natural history.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Moran Trust. 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 backsteadyArts and Culture Organizati…Research & Knowledge Advanc…Diverse Community ServicesArts & Culture Grantmaking …Private Grantmaking Foundat…
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr21%23%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr11%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr21%19%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr11%49%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/131
the rest of the field
11%
5,629/52,495

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

115 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. 115 of the 202 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/115
Grantees still filing
78/115
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY — $3,019,894 · OtherLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITYCOOPER UNION FOR THE ADV OF SCIENCE — $1,426,000 · OtherCOOPER UNION FOR THE ADV OF SCIENCETHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,200,001 · OtherTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETYGILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA — $1,000,000 · OtherGILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICALAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND — $840,000 · OtherLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDTHE ROSLYN LANDMARK SOCIETY INC — $607,975 · Other+102 more — $7,394,046 · Other+102 moreNew York Historical Society — $2,654,057 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical SocietyPBS FOUNDATION — $2,333,334 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATIONTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC — $630,000 · Arts & CultureMONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $578,006 · Arts & CultureFIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM — $561,453 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORYMAKERS — $500,000 · Arts & CultureThree Village Historical Society — $481,100 · Arts & Culture+52 more — $4,335,278 · Arts & Culture+52 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,824,473 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA …MOLLOY UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 · EducationMOLLOY UNIVERSITYNew York University — $1,458,769 · EducationNew York UniversityIONA UNIVERSITY — $750,000 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITYWEBB INSTITUTE — $629,249 · EducationWEBB INSTITUTE+16 more — $1,537,985 · Education+16 moreTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC — $250,000 · EnvironmentPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION — $210,455 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentCAUMSETT FOUNDATION INC — $86,824 · EnvironmentBABYLON BEAUTIFICATION SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CONNETQUOT INC — $34,944 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $757,746 · Science & TechCutchogue Civic Association — $67,660 · Community ImprovementEAST END SEAPORT MUSEUM AND MARINE FOUNDATION — $56,600 · Community ImprovementRENEE & CHAIM GROSS FOUNDATION INC — $10,500 · PhilanthropyWading River Cemetery Assoc Inc — $10,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$15,487,916Arts & Culture$12,073,228Education$8,700,476Environment$792,223Science & Tech$757,746Community Improvement$124,260Philanthropy$10,500Membership Benefit$10,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY — $3,019,894 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,824,473 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $2,654,057 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $2,333,334 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNew York University — $1,458,769 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,200,001 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $757,746 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY — $750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC — $630,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetWEBB INSTITUTE — $629,249 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROSLYN LANDMARK SOCIETY INC — $607,975 over 6y, 25% of budgetMONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $578,006 over 4y, 13% of budgetFIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM — $561,453 over 3y, 72% of budgetTHE HISTORYMAKERS — $500,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetThree Village Historical Society — $481,100 over 5y, 56% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF RAYNHAM HALL INC — $429,628 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc — $383,545 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetYAPHANK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $362,029 over 6y, 91% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $289,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE — $285,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetGREATER HUDSON HERITAGE NETWORK — $279,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOYSTER BAY RAILROAD MUSEUM — $236,700 over 3y, 97% of budgetST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $229,624 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUFFOLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $222,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION — $210,455 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHUNTINGTON LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $207,725 over 2y, 34% of budgetThomas Moran Trust — $200,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $197,534 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCIENCE EAST INC — $186,689 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CEDARMERE INC — $175,381 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK — $160,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetNEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES PARTNERSHIP TR — $160,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCow Neck Peninsula Historical Society — $150,645 over 4y, 43% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUMS — $149,518 over 4y, 21% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC — $145,419 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEW AMSTERDAM HISTORY CENTER — $142,238 over 2y, 48% of budgetKETCHAM INN FOUNDATION INC — $136,809 over 6y, 82% of budgetOYSTERPONDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $133,100 over 5y, 19% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND HISTORY MUSEUM — $131,600 over 4y, 24% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $128,600 over 3y, 11% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $124,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOLLOY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WEBB INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE ROSLYN LANDMARK SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FIREBOAT FIRE FIGHTER MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE HISTORYMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds Three Village Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF RAYNHAM HALL INC ↗
  • Who funds Old Westbury Gardens Inc ↗
  • Who funds YAPHANK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HUDSON HERITAGE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds OYSTER BAY RAILROAD MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

Greater Hudson Herita…The William G Pomeroy…Preservation League o…The New York Communit…The Claire Friedlande…New York Community Ba…New York Council for …Peggy N & Roger G Ger…Charles and Helen Rei…The McGrath Family Ch…Frederic R Coudert Fo…John C Dunphy Private…
Greater Hudson Heritage NetworkNY45.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Hudson Heritage Network · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · Preservation League of New York State · The New York Community Trust · The Claire Friedlander Family Foundation · New York Community Bank Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · Peggy N & Roger G Gerry Charitable · Charles and Helen Reichert Family Foundation Inc · The McGrath Family Charitable Foundation · Frederic R Coudert Foundation · John C Dunphy Private Foundation Inc

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 Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Inc 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 202 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.

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