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The Carl & Nancy Gewirz Fund Inc

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.

$211k
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$1.6MHealth$642kArts & Culture$412kEducation$152kRecreation & Sports$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kYouth Development$19kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k73 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$300
Median grant
13
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL$75,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$20,000
POWERLIFTING AMERICA$14,000
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$11,000
TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM$6,375
Individual grant recipient$4,330
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOC$4,000
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM$2,500
ARTISTS ASSOC OF NANTUCKET$2,500
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL$2,500
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
GEORGETOWN UNIV MEDICAL CENTER$2,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $500 → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $500 → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $500 → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $500 → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $500 → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $250 → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $250 → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $250 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $200 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $200 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $200 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $200 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $200 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150 → 14%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

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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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 91 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

91 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
8

Total granted

$2.9M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+79%

Still filing today

56%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SH
    SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $179k · revenue +37%
  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    5× · 2020–2024 · $119k · revenue +15%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CS
    CORCORAN SCHOOL OF ART DESIGN - G
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • SH
    SMITHSONIAN HIRSHHORN MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • VC
    VNA CAPE COD HOSPICE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
5
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
6
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trust for the National Mall and the most unlike its peers is The Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…Domestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…
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 53 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr15%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr18%2%20–35yr16%4%35–55yr15%89%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,939

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

58 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 105 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
48/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,585,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $262,500 · OtherSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITALJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER — $218,000 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY CENTERWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER FDN — $110,000 · Other+59 more — $292,837 · Other+59 moreSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC — $179,000 · HealthBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $10,000 · Health+10 more — $13,245 · HealthNational Gallery of Art — $119,440 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $8,900 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $5,500 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $18,074 · Arts & CultureJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · Education+4 more — $6,750 · EducationPowerlifting America — $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $1,750 · Human ServicesJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,150 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $1,000 · Human ServicesNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,700 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $750 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC — $500 · Environment
Other$2,468,337Health$202,245Arts & Culture$151,914Education$112,750Youth Development$19,000Human Services$5,400Environment$2,950

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 budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC — $179,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $119,440 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPowerlifting America — $19,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $8,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL — $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $3,225 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC — $1,657 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC — $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJames Renwick Alliance — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC — $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION — $835 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $815 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING UNLIMITED INC — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE PLACE INC — $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $672 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP BASKET MUSEUM INC — $475 over 4y, 0.1% 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 SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Powerlifting America
  • Who funds BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC
  • Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL
  • Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
  • Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SOME INC

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.

Nantucket Golf Club Foundation IncMA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Tupancy-Harris Fdn-1986 · King Spruce Company · The Hale Family Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Tomares Family 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 The Carl & Nancy Gewirz Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • A Safe Place Inc45% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc5% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc4% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc0% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc0% of income from government
  • Suburban Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Carl & Nancy Gewirz Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Carl & Nancy Gewirz Fund 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 105 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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