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The Gerry Family Foundation Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lake Delaware Boys Camp | $10,000 |
| New England College | $5,630 |
| Colgate University | $2,500 |
| Community Church of Vero Beach | $2,500 |
| The Learning Alliance | $2,500 |
| New Canaan Congregational Church | $2,150 |
| Proctor Academy | $1,550 |
| Eckerd College | $1,000 |
| The Harvey School | $1,000 |
| New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | $1,000 |
| St Mark's School of Southborough | $1,000 |
| The Southport School | $1,000 |
| United Against Poverty | $1,000 |
| Windsor Community Foundation | $1,000 |
| Learning Disabilities Association of America | $440 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NENew England College8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +46%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +80%
- TLTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- PMProject Main Street Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -81%
- TMTerry Malone Foundationone grant, 2020 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
South kent school is an independent, college-preparatory school for boys. since its founding, south kent has maintained ties with the episcopal church. three principles define the school: simplicity of life, self-reliance, and directness…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Deerfield academy is an independent secondary school committed to high standards of scholarship, citizenship, and personal responsibility. through a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, extensive co-curricular program, and supportive…
Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Southport School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Windsor Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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 33 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LAKE DELAWARE BOYS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds New England College ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARVEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Project Main Street Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WINDSOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DENT DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gladys and Roland Harriman Foundation · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Gerry Family Foundation Trust 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.
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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