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The Gertler Clark 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.

$337k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$414kYouth Development$271kInternational$156kArts & Culture$72kHealth$64kRecreation & Sports$61kEnvironment$43kScience & Tech$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION$100,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
ROOT CAPITAL$30,000
MYRIAD USA$25,000
SQUASHBUSTERS INC$25,000
SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE$12,500
LITTLE BELLAS$10,000
SONA GLOBAL LTD$10,000
J2RC DANCES$10,000
WESTON NEWS INC$10,000
COMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE$10,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION METROWEST INC$8,000
PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH$4,320
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$4,000
CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA$3,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMANI PROJECT INC: $1k → 4%GNU FOUNDATION: $22k → 10%GNU FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $1k → 16%GNU FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%GNU FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $250 → 16%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
MS
GA

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 31% of The Gertler Clark Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Gertler Clark Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$802k · 36 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
45

Total granted

$802k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+1%

Still filing today

83%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2025 · $174k · revenue +34%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • GF
    GNU FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +22% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • KI
    KHELSHALA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -62%
  • BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +114%
  • FF
    FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +455%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
6
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association Inc

To promote the interests of the university of massachusetts amherst through programs, services and communications that develop and reinforce the bonds between the university and its alumni; to validate the value and alumni pride in the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Khelshala Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Systems Change AdvocacyYouth Education ProgramsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Arts ProgramsCommunity Arts & PerformanceClassical Music EducationInternational Development &…Youth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr14%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%35%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr14%42%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,275

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.

05the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 105 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
45/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $174,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYFRAMINGHAM HISTORY CENTER INC — $16,529 · OtherJ2RC DANCES — $15,000 · OtherBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $14,500 · OtherCOMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC — $16,500 · Other+57 more — $137,553 · Other+57 moreSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentSQUASHBUSTERS INCBellas Mentoring Inc — $10,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUS…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $65,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $28,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows o…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $10,993 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $10,000 · Education+9 more — $23,949 · Education+9 moreROOT CAPITAL INC — $55,000 · InternationalROOT CAPIT…MYRIAD USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA…GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION USA — $16,000 · InternationalGUATEMALA …CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $9,000 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE …+1 more — $500 · InternationalKHELSHALA INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsPortland Community Squash — $17,280 · Recreation & SportsSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $13,000 · Recreation & SportsKISORO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $8,250 · Recreation & SportsWESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $1,750 · Recreation & SportsPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $50,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $2,800 · Health+6 more — $2,600 · HealthGNU FOUNDATION — $40,500 · Human Services+3 more — $2,260 · Human Services
Other$374,082Youth Development$268,500Education$237,942International$105,500Recreation & Sports$64,280Health$55,400Human Services$42,760

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $250,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $174,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGNU FOUNDATION — $40,500 over 3y, 28% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKHELSHALA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPortland Community Squash — $17,280 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRAMINGHAM HISTORY CENTER INC — $16,529 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC — $16,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION USA — $16,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $10,993 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $10,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTON NEWS INC DBA (WESTON OBSERVER) — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBellas Mentoring Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKISORO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $8,250 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCambridge Art Association — $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetANJALI HOUSE US INC — $6,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWellesley College — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $5,775 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC — $4,830 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS — $4,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COAST ARTISTS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY INC — $2,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAX WARBURG COURAGE CURRICULUM INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIGNET ASSOCIATES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAND'S SAKE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMANI PROJECT INC — $1,010 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc — $1,000 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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Alvord Family Foundat…Combined Jewish Phila…Massachusetts Foundat…Cummings Foundation G…The Aksel Nielsen Fou…The Joan Shafran and …Philip Snyder Foundat…William E Schrafft an…Community Foundation …Highland Street Conne…
Boston Foundation IncMA30.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Aksel Nielsen Foundation · The Joan Shafran and Rob Haimes Foundation Inc · Philip Snyder Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries

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 Gertler Clark 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Root Capital Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Land's Sake Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Gertler Clark Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Gertler Clark Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 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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