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The Gardner Family Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$114kPublic Benefit$108kCivil Rights$55kHuman Services$26kHousing & Shelter$5kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$5kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$957k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY COLLEGE$10,000
INDEPENDENT ARTS MEDIA$5,000
POSITIVE TRACKS$5,000
LONG ISLAND CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,000
MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT$500
HOMEWORKS TRENTON INC$500
SHELTERED YOGA$500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EFAA: $14k → 12%ANCHOR HOUSE FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%HOPE FOR TOMORROW: $10k → 8%ARM IN ARM: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
2
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
3
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
4
Asian Pacific Environmental Network

APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.

Environment
5
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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6
Refugee Womens Alliance

ReWA is a non-profit, multi-ethnic organization that promotes inclusion, independence, personal leadership, and strong communities by providing refugee and immigrant women and their families with culturally and linguistically appropriate…

Human Services
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Clean Energy Transition Institute

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.

Education
9
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
10
New Jersey Policy Perspective

New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture
11
Next River

Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.

Social Science
12
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Northwest and the most unlike its peers is Sheltered Yoga. 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

21 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. 21 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE — $92,500 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGEFJC — $10,000 · OtherFJC+18 more — $25,100 · Other+18 moreTRINITY COLLEGE — $111,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE+2 more — $2,500 · EducationCenter for Third World Organizing — $50,000 · InternationalCenter for Third W…MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $2,500 · InternationalEducation For Just Peace in Middle East — $2,500 · InternationalEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $13,600 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR TOMORROW INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesARM IN ARM INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesANCHOR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $1,042 · Human ServicesIndependent Arts & Media — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — $500 · Arts & CulturePOSITIVE TRACKS INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyVISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$127,600Education$113,500International$55,000Human Services$26,142Arts & Culture$5,500Philanthropy$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $111,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $13,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOR TOMORROW INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEducation For Just Peace in Middle East — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAustin Rowing Club — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGot Green — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARM IN ARM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANCHOR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $1,042 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeWorks Trenton — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Robert Wood Johns…Proteus Fund IncGulf Coast Community …Princeton Area Commun…Amalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…
The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNJ16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment 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 Gardner Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Sheltered Yoga — 40% of income from government
  • HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
  • Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Trinity College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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By state
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