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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.

$225k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
10%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,895
Organizations funded a year
16 to 21
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$225k40%
FY202320$150k10%
FY202221$135k24%
FY202116$150k44%
FY202017$210kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$231kEducation$167kHousing & Shelter$151kFood & Nutrition$94kHuman Services$62kInternational$55kHealth$50kEnvironment$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
MD
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($356k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAsolo Theatre Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRubin Museum of Art Aka the Shelley & Donald Rubin Cultural Trust: $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points: $52,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRainier Valley Food Bank: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRingling College of Art and Design Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc: $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHolt International Children's Services Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Studio Theatre Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOberlin College: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Pro Musica: $14,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt James Elementary PTA: $8,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetRutgers University Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbilities First Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWest Side Center for Community Life: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMachik Corp: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForce-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation 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.

About The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation

How much does The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation give?
The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (19%), Housing & Shelter (17%).
Who are The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Asolo Theatre Inc ($65k), Rubin Museum of Art Aka the Shelley & Donald Rubin Cultural Trust ($60k), Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ($52k).
Does The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation based?
The Edward & Elizabeth Gardner Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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