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The Goergen Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Goergen 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
67
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.8MArts & Culture$1.5MEnvironment$575kPhilanthropy$304kHealth$220kPublic Benefit$189kAnimals$172kRecreation & Sports$172kOther$0
02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $819k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$3,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$1,100,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$130,500
LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$125,250
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$120,000
Individual grant recipient$101,000
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY$100,000
MATTHEW GAFFNEY FOUNDATION$90,000
YWCA GREENWICH$51,900
THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND$50,000
AOKI FOUNDATION$44,000
FRIENDS OF AIGLON COLLEGE INC$25,000
THE DRAWING CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%PATHWAYS INC: $1k → 13%PATHWAYS INC: $1k → 13%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $1k → 20%EAST END HOSPICE: $700 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $600 → 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%ST ANN PLACE OUTREACH CENTER: $2k → 11%YWCA GREENWICH: $52k → 9%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
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

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

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 86 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
77

Total granted

$8.6M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+12%

Still filing today

84%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +55%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $574k · revenue +116%

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%
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.

04Its 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
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
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
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
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
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
6
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
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
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
10
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
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 189 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
142/144
Grantees still filing
100/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,235,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,107,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityTHE MATTHEW GAFFNEY FOUNDATION: $675,000 · EducationTHE MATTHEW GAFFNEY FOUNDATIONADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $570,000 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $410,612 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $310,000 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $192,640 · EducationKIDS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $180,000 · Education+28 more: $627,600 · Education+28 moreNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $574,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF …WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $362,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF…THE DRAWING CENTER INC: $160,200 · Arts & CultureTHE DRAWING CENTE…The Society of the Four Arts Inc: $115,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of th…+24 more: $235,125 · Arts & Culture+24 moreLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $325,650 · OtherLost Tree Villag…HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION: $215,000 · OtherHORATIO ALGER AS…Individual grant recipient: $101,400 · OtherIndividual grant…WHARTON FUND: $100,000 · OtherWHARTON FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $62,000 · OtherAOKI FOUNDATION: $54,000 · OtherBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $48,750 · OtherYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $59,750 · Other+97 more: $324,695 · Other+97 moreNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $527,050 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $32,500 · Environment+4 more: $19,200 · EnvironmentMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $220,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $25,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $6,000 · Public BenefitSpace for Giants USA Inc: $152,500 · 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$5,308,352Arts & Culture$1,446,325Other$1,381,245Environment$578,750Public Benefit$251,000Animals$183,750Recreation & Sports$171,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,235,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,107,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MATTHEW GAFFNEY FOUNDATION: $675,000 over 7y, 80% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $574,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $570,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $527,050 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $410,612 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $362,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $325,650 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $310,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $220,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $192,640 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $180,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $170,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $160,200 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSpace for Giants USA Inc: $152,500 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $115,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $91,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKING SCHOOL INC: $88,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $87,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $62,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $59,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $56,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAOKI FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $48,750 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $36,925 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $34,250 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $24,495 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE A DIFFERENCE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $13,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $11,000 over 4y, 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 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds THE MATTHEW GAFFNEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds KIDS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE DRAWING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Space for Giants USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KING SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds YWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AOKI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗

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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
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 189 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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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 endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home