· Private foundation
The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of THE EDWARD & ELIZABETH GARDNER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GEORGETOWN SC | $25,895 |
| HERITAGE UNIVERSITY CHILD CARE SCHOLARSHIPS TO NEEDY STUDENTS | $25,105 |
| ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE | $15,000 |
| THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART FOR HIMALAYAN ART | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE | $12,000 |
| TURNING POINTS | $12,000 |
| YWCA SEATTLE (KING) SNOHOMISH | $10,000 |
| COOPER UNION SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $10,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION ATTN JENNIFER AYDELOTT | $10,000 |
| HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $8,000 |
| ST JAMES ELEMENTARY PTA | $8,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| BERKSHIRE SCHOOL CO PETER MULDER | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +27% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- ATASOLO THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +46%
- RMRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +48%
- RVRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- EHELMHURST HOSPITAL AUXILIARYone grant, 2020 · $30k
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +88%
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Incone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -19%
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 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 47 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
- Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON PRO MUSICA ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Abilities First Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds MACHIK CORP ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FORCE-FACING OUR RISK OF CANCER EMPOWERED INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Edward & Elizabeth Gardner 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.
- Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc — 15% of income from government
- Princeton Pro Musica — 14% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 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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