Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

The Goergen Foundation Inc

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$3.8MArts & Culture$1.5MEnvironment$575kPhilanthropy$304kHealth$220kPublic Benefit$189kAnimals$172kRecreation & Sports$172kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $294k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $674k
$3,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$200,000
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$120,000
MATTHEW GAFFNEY FOUNDATION$90,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$63,500
THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE$50,000
AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND$30,000
LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$25,000
SPACE FOR GIANTS USA INC$25,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE DRAWING CENTER$22,500
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$15,000
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 (FY19–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%PATHWAYS INC: $1k → 13%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $1k → 20%EAST END HOSPICE: $700 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $400 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $400 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $350 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $200 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $200 → 7%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $500 → 17%WHEELING FORWARD INC: $4k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $500 → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $500 → 17%YWCA GREENWICH: $2k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $2k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $2k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $2k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $1k → 9%AT HOME IN GREENWICH INC: $300 → 9%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
TN
NC
DC
FL

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 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 79 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

79 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
72

Total granted

$6.5M
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+20%

Still filing today

86%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    4× · 2019–2023 · $526k · revenue +42%
  • AJ
    ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $470k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • WF
    WHARTON FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • ED
    EARTH DAY NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -13%

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.

—
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aoki Foundation. 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 backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Mentoring ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersSchool District FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Domestic Violence ServicesPublic Library OperationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Youth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Food Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Addiction Recovery ServicesLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/134
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,431

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.

04the grantee network

129 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. 129 of the 169 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/129
Grantees still filing
98/129
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Trustees of Princeton University — $1,095,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityTHE MATTHEW GAFFNEY FOUNDATION — $585,000 · EducationTHE MATTHEW GAFFNEY FOUNDATIONADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $470,000 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INCWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $310,000 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHOOL INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $290,612 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAKIDS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $180,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $142,640 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $135,000 · Education+24 more — $565,600 · Education+24 moreNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $443,500 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF AR…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $362,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF A…THE DRAWING CENTER INC — $135,200 · Arts & CultureTHE DRAWING CENTER …The Society of the Four Arts Inc — $90,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the …+22 more — $195,925 · Arts & Culture+22 moreHORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION — $215,000 · OtherHORATIO ALGER A…Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation — $200,400 · OtherLost Tree Villa…WHARTON FUND — $100,000 · OtherWHARTON FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · OtherIndividual gran…BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $48,500 · OtherJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $62,000 · OtherJupiter Medical…+87 more — $278,045 · Other+87 moreNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $526,050 · EnvironmentNEW YORK …MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $32,500 · EnvironmentMADISON S…+3 more — $12,600 · EnvironmentMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $170,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute — $15,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $5,000 · Public BenefitSpace for Giants USA Inc — $150,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society — $20,000 · AnimalsOCEARCH — $10,000 · Animals+2 more — $1,250 · AnimalsAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $170,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $1,100 · Recreation & Sports
Education$3,773,852Arts & Culture$1,226,625Other$968,945Environment$571,150Public Benefit$190,000Animals$181,250Recreation & Sports$171,100

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 budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $1,095,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MATTHEW GAFFNEY FOUNDATION — $585,000 over 6y, 80% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $526,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $470,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $443,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $362,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $310,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $290,612 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation — $200,400 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetKIDS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $180,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $170,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $170,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSpace for Giants USA Inc — $150,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $142,640 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC — $135,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKING SCHOOL INC — $88,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $87,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $76,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $62,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY — $51,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $48,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $33,925 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC — $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $24,495 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $23,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION — $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE A DIFFERENCE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLeadership Institute — $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEARCH — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAOKI FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $8,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC — $7,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEaston Country Day School Inc — $7,650 over 2y, 0.1% 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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Fairfield County's Co…The Crapple FoundationCornelia Cogswell Ros…The New York Communit…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundCharitarianThe Resource Foundati…Panwy Foundation IncArison Arts FoundationRoyce Family Fund Inc
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY23.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Crapple Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Charitarian · The Resource Foundation Inc · Panwy Foundation Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · Royce Family Fund Inc

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 Goergen 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 · 200%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Laurel House Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
34report 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.

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 169 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines