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The Eleanor R Gardner Foundation at a glance

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The Eleanor R 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.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$165kInternational$35kEducation$18kHousing & Shelter$10kAnimals$5kHuman Services$5kReligion$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$818k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD FOR THE POOR$30,000
UNBOUND$12,000
ST AGNES ACADEMY$2,500
SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE$2,000
NEBRASKA CATTLEMEN FOUNDATION$2,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,500
ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$500
4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H$160
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNBOUND: $15k → 16%UNBOUND: $12k → 16%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
NE
MO
MD
KS
OK
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$234k · 9 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$234k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+27%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160 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
InternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    ST AGNES ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +77%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +392%
  • AP
    ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • HR
    HOLY ROSARY PARISH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +7%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
3
United Way of New York State

To strengthen the capacity of local united ways through their charitable human service activities to be leaders in achieving results that improve the lives of all new yorkers.

Philanthropy
4
United Way Foundation of Abilene

The foundation is building a permanent, stable avenue of support to ensure continued funding of united way of abilene's network of agencies and programs that meet the basic needs of people in abilene and west central texas.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Nebraska City Inc

United way distributes collections to civil and charitable organizations in the geographical area.

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Florence County

To provide community leadership and resource development to positively impact the needs of our community by strengthening relationships, programs and services that produce measurable results and improve the quality of life. To be…

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7
United Charitable

To grow and support each charitable journey by providing simple customized vehicles that fulfill your philanthropic endeavors by administering donor-advised funds and fiscally sponsored programs.

Philanthropy
8
The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania

United way leads and mobilizes the caring power of individuals, the business community and organizations to help people in need measurably improve their lives, creating long lasting change for the betterment of residents in allegheny,…

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Southeast Ark Inc

Fund raising and agency allocations

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10
United Way of Central Arkansas Inc

To impact our community members by fostering a greater quality of life through initiatives focused on education, health, and financial stability.

Philanthropy
11
Capital Area United Way

To improve lives by leveraging partnerships in our community to advance the common good through education access, economic mobility, and healthy living.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Stanly County Inc

The united way of stanly county inc works with public and private sectors through a system of agencies and programs by raising and allocating funds and planning for the delivery of needed human services.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Floresta Usa Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $165,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalST AGNES ACADEMY: $7,822 · OtherST AGNES ACADEM…NEBRASKA CATTLEMEN FOUNDATION: $5,400 · OtherNEBRASKA CATTLE…HOLY ROSARY PARISH: $5,000 · OtherHOLY ROSARY PAR…ST AGNES ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherST AGNES ACADEM…CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $3,500 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $2,500 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST V…JUNIOR LEAGUE DIAPER BANK: $2,500 · OtherJUNIOR LEAGUE D…ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherUnbound: $32,000 · Human ServicesUnboundSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,700 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCARNEGIE ARTS CENTER INC: $200 · Arts & Culture4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H: $160 · Youth Development
International$167,500Other$33,722Human Services$32,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Education$3,700Philanthropy$2,500Arts & Culture$200Youth Development$160

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $165,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST AGNES ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCARNEGIE ARTS CENTER INC: $200 over 2y, 0.2% of budget4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H: $160 over 5y, 0.1% of budget
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 FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Unbound ↗
  • Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ST AGNES ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA ↗
  • Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds 4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eleanor R Gardner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eleanor R Gardner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 17 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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