· Private foundation
The Gardner Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $7,000 |
| ACLU | $7,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $7,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD-AMERICA | $6,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $4,757 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $4,078 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS - AUTOIMMUNE | $4,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $4,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $3,224 |
| MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $2,853 |
| SUNFLOWER OF PEACE | $2,853 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,853 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $2,500 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $2,139 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +78%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +10%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- HWHEART WALK (AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION)one grant, 2018 · $775
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
- FFFAIR FIGHT 2020one grant, 2019 · $500
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.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ART START INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gardner Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gardner Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
How this is measured
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