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The Eric Gleacher Foundation at a glance

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The Eric Gleacher 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.

$212k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$6.2MEducation$385kHealth$284kPhilanthropy$79kArts & Culture$49kReligion$28kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$75,000
LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
STUDENT ADVOCACY INC$10,000
NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS$10,000
MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC$9,500
THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION INC$5,000
NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
ON COURSE FOUNDATION USA$5,000
VINCEREMOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$5,000
THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATION FUND INC$5,000
PALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC$5,000
METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UA FOUNDATION - ELLER COLLEGE: $10k → 15%MAYO CLINIC: $15k → 9%STUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $11k → 9%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 11%ON COURSE FOUNDATION USA: $5k → 13%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $5.3M → 14%WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 20%ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND: $5k → 7%STUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $10k → 9%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $15k → 17%LOST TREE FOUNDATION: $18k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $569k → 14%WESTERN ILLINOIS GOLF: $10k → 20%ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND: $5k → 7%STUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $10k → 9%NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $10k → 17%NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $152k → 14%STUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $5k → 9%NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $10k → 17%LOST TREE CHAPEL INC: $10k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%STUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $5k → 9%DONORSCHOOSEORG: $10k → 17%LOST TREE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $125k → 14%STUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $5k → 9%MARINE CORPS LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THE SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL FUND: $10k → 7%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATION FUND INC: $5k → 7%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $12k → 17%LOST TREE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%JAMES C FERRER EDUCATION FUND: $5k → 7%LOST TREE CHAPEL INC: $10k → 11%THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATION FUND INC: $5k → 7%MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $5k → 17%NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 9%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $75k → 17%MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 9%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25k → 17%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 18 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$6.7M
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+22%

Still filing today

72%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitArts & 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

  • Northwestern University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $6.2M · revenue +41%
  • LT
    Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +49%
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +22%
  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • UF
    UA FOUNDATION - ELLER COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Long Island Caddie Scholarship Fund Inc

To create and/or grant scholarships to colleges, universities or other institutions of higher education for needy & deserving individuals who are golf caddies or former caddies. (continues on schedule o)

Education
2
Metropolitan Golf Association Foundation

To educate the interested public in the game of golf including the rules of golf, traditions and etiquette of the game, and techniques involved in playing the game.

Arts & Culture
3
Maryland State Golf Association

To serve, grow and advance the game of golf in maryland and the district of columbia.

Recreation & Sports
4
Pga Tour Inc

The principal mission of pga tour, inc. is to promote the sport of professional golf through sanctioning and administering golf tournaments and promoting the common interests of touring golf professionals. this is accomplished by providing…

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5
Usga Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the usga's mission to champion and advance the game of golf, everywhere it is played. its purpose is soley charitable, scientific, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the…

Recreation & Sports
6
Ussga Memorial Fund Inc

Provide donations to organizations that are charitable and/or educational: see sch o. meet the specifications of irc 501 (c) (3) ; and promote the furtherance of golf through providing scholarships to caddies and others worthy of support…

Employment
7
Western Golf Association

Western golf association was formed to promote and supervise any and all matters and activities pertaining to or for the benefit of caddies who have received the evans scholarship, to conduct golf tournaments for the benefit of the evans…

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8
New Jersey State Golf Association

The new jersey state golf association, inc. ("the association") is a non-profit organization of public and private clubs that was formed for the purpose of preserving and promoting the game of golf throughout the state of new jersey.the…

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9
World Golf Foundation Inc

To unite the golf industry around initiatives that promote, enhance the growth of and provide access to the game worldwide, while preserving golf's traditional values and passing them on to others. it accomplishes its mission through: 1.…

Recreation & Sports
10
Needham Golf Club Inc

Social and recreational golf club for nonprofit purposes.

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11
The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc

The ouimet fund's purpose is to help deserving young men and women, who have worked at golf courses in massachusetts, obtain a college education. we provide need-based college scholarships, which are renewable and worth an average of…

Education
12
Long Island Golf Association Inc

Long island golf association hold tournaments for the purpose of determining the various long island golf champions, to promote good fellowship and friendly rivalry among the golf players and golf clubs on long island; to foster and…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Guild International Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Michelle McGann Fund Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwestern University: $6,152,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100,000 · OtherLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $70,000 · OtherJAMES B LEE JR SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $45,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $40,000 · OtherLOST TREE FOUNDATION: $33,000 · OtherLOST TREE CHAPEL INC: $28,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+10 more: $51,500 · OtherUniversity of Chicago: $125,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $59,400 · EducationSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $49,000 · EducationWestern Illinois University Foundation: $25,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ): $38,000 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $36,000 · PhilanthropyThe Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $18,850 · PhilanthropyLIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $17,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $20,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $15,000 · HealthVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $6,000 · HealthGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $2,000 · HealthON COURSE FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 · Public BenefitTHE THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Recreation & Sports$6,152,500Other$392,500Education$278,400Philanthropy$128,850Health$45,000Public Benefit$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetNorthwestern University: $6,152,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $59,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $49,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ): $38,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Illinois University Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $18,850 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL GOLF LINKS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJAMES B LEE JR SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN HONOR OF JOSEPH A MCBRIDE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetON COURSE FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE MAIDSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC GOLF CLUB INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

The Meryl & Charles W…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Raether Family Ch…Mutual of America Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…A Haigh Cundey Founda…Lift a Life Foundatio…Cornell University Fo…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable FoundationNY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Raether Family Charitable Trust · Mutual of America Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · A Haigh Cundey Foundation · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Cornell University Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Eric Gleacher Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Eric Gleacher 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.

    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 40 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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