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The Cunningham-Gardiner 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE HORSE PARK AT WOODSIDE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HUDDART & WUNDERLICH PARKS | $4,000 |
| UNITED HOSPITAL FUND | $3,000 |
| VERMONT FOOD BANK | $2,900 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE | $2,500 |
| HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY | $2,000 |
| JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER | $1,500 |
| HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $1,500 |
| WESTON THEATER COMPNAY | $1,300 |
| MCC THEATER | $1,300 |
| WOODLEA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LANDGROVE MEETING HOUSE | $1,000 |
| SMOKEY HOUSE | $900 |
| FRIENDS OF THE VERMONT CONFERENCE | $800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of your 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.
31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED3× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +74%- THTHE HORSE PARK AT WOODSIDE3× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +114%
- HHHISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SMSAN MATEO COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k
- SAST ANTHONY TRUST OF HARTFORD INCone grant, 2022 · $1k
- SHSMOKEY HOUSE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $400 · revenue +118%
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.
Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.
The sole purpose of the svhc foundation shall be to engage in development and fundraising activities exclusively for the support of the southwestern vermont health care corporation and affiliates.
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
D-HH operates to establish, manage, govern, and fundraise for an integrated healthcare delivery System. To that end, D-HH is particularly focused to: - Manage the healthcare System to provide services to the public in the most…
Serve as the governing organization for physicians who are employed to provide clinical services to affiliated member hospitals (the "affiliated hospitals") of the university of vermont health network ("uvm health network").
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The mission of the Windham Hospital Foundation Inc., is to build a bridge between the community and the hospital and to enhance the resources that support the Hospital in meeting the health care needs of our community.
The mission of Windham Community Memorial Hospital is to offer comprehensive services in an environment where innovation and teaching are integral to care; where we are proud to serve patients and one another; where meeting the challenge…
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
UVCHS in a not for profit organization that provides medical dental behavioral heath and pharmacy services. Our goal is to make quality care available to everyone regardless of demographic or economic status. We accept all major insurances…
Cvmc works collaboratively to meet the needs and improve the health of the residents of central vermont.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 48 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 GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE HORSE PARK AT WOODSIDE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDDART & WUNDERLICH PARKS ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Carlos G Otis Health Care Center ↗
- Who funds WOODLEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Upward Scholars ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Londonderry Arts & Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad ↗
- Who funds BURR & BURTON SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ↗
- Who funds SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cheshire Medical Center ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Cunningham-Gardiner 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.
- Smokey House Center — 54% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% 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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