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The Gardner Family Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
POSITIVE TRACKS$5,000
INDEPENDENT ARTS MEDIA$5,000
LONG ISLAND CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,000
HOMEWORKS TRENTON INC$500
MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT$500
SHELTERED YOGA$500
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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

NH
WA
MT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
TN
DC
TX
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 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Northwest; 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 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. 21 of the 34 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetGot Green: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAustin Rowing Club: $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
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 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

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 Gardner Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gardner Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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