· Private foundation
The Andrew S Gaffney Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Marks Episcopal Church | $6,000 |
| St Marys School | $5,000 |
| Birth Haven | $3,475 |
| St Peters Church | $3,460 |
| Brunswick School | $3,350 |
| Mayo Performing Arts | $3,023 |
| St James Church | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,398 |
| Greenwich Land Trust | $1,059 |
| Pan Mass Challenge | $1,027 |
| Go Fund Me | $1,000 |
| Preschool Advantage | $1,000 |
| Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church | $1,000 |
| Historic Housz Trust | $1,000 |
| Dutchess Land Conservancy | $600 |
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 (FY18–19, $567) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +44% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY5× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +63%
- BSBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +24%
- BHBIRTH HAVEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- ASAmerican Scholar Group Scholarshipsone grant, 2019 · $25k
- JVJACOB VANDERVEER HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 148 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PECK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Kean Foundation Inc · Healey Family Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Meerwarth Family Foundation · Wicks Chapin Inc · George a Ohl Jr Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Andrew S Gaffney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Andrew S Gaffney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community in Crisis Inc: 56% of income from government
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc: 40% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Liberty Hall Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Morristown-Beard School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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