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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k69 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF RAYNHAM HALL INC | $31,000 |
| 101 E 69 ST CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC | $9,200 |
| LITTLE BRITCHES THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $6,250 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER | $6,200 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RES | $6,000 |
| INTL PATRONS OF DUOMO DI MILANO | $5,000 |
| 1014 NYC | $5,000 |
| PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD | $4,600 |
| KIPP NYC | $4,600 |
| RAZOM INC | $4,500 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $4,200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AMAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +50%
- SSSALISBURY SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +56%
- TKTHE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +7%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +20%- WCWELLESLEY COLLEGE DEV OFFICEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- NLNY LAW INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2021 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.
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…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Huguenot Historical Society New Paltz Ny and the most unlike its peers is Vernon Township Ambulance Squad. 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.
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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
74 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. 74 of the 126 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE FRIENDS OF RAYNHAM HALL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIVEWELL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds Lifeforce in Later Years Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PATRONS OF DUOMO DI MILANO INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Blerancourt Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY MARBLE CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OYSTER BAY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds TILTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PCC FARMLAND TRUST ↗
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.
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
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 Sumner Gerard 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.
- The Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
- New Jersey Future Inc — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- American Mural Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Tri-State Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Little Britches Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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