· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| 1014 NYC | $5,000 |
| MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD | $4,600 |
| KIPP NYC | $4,600 |
| RAZOM INC | $4,500 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $4,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 INTERNATIONAL PATRONS OF DUOMO DI MILANO INC ↗
- Who funds Lifeforce in Later Years Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Blerancourt Inc ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- 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 HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sumner Gerard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sumner Gerard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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