New York · Private foundation
Sumner Gerard Foundation
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.
- $211k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $31,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 63 to 66
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Sumner Gerard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 68 | $202k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $199k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $187k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $197k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $178k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Friends of Raynham Hall Inc | $144,500 | 5 | 7% |
| American Mural Project Inc | $41,400 | 5 | 1% |
| Salisbury School Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Kennedy Collective Inc | $29,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Mass Design Group Ltd | $27,600 | 5 | 0% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Professional Childrens School Inc | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Livewell Alliance Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Technoserve Inc | $19,600 | 5 | 0% |
| International Patrons of Duomo Di Milano Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 54% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sumner Gerard Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Ibm International Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Patagoniaorg · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Sumner Gerard Foundation
- How much does Sumner Gerard Foundation give?
- Sumner Gerard Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $210,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 66 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Sumner Gerard Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (17%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Sumner Gerard Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Friends of Raynham Hall Inc ($145k), American Mural Project Inc ($41k), Salisbury School Inc ($40k).
- Does Sumner Gerard Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sumner Gerard Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sumner Gerard Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sumner Gerard Foundation based?
- Sumner Gerard Foundation is based in NY.
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