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The Graymer Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of The Graymer Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Dayton Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 23 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Graymer Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $716k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $401k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY | $65,000 |
| LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY | $55,000 |
| FDN FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $35,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| ST EDWARDS SCHOOL-DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY-DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $25,000 |
| STEP FORWARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $20,000 |
| VNA & HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FLAGLER COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| CIVIL AIR PATROL FDN - CAP-DVLPMNT | $15,000 |
| AOPA AIR SAFETY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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.
43 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- TLTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY5× · 2020–2024 · $263k · revenue +36%
- THTHE HILLSIDE SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +73%
- FFFoundation for Morristown Medical Center5× · 2020–2024 · $183k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- SEST EDWARDS SCHOOL SWIM POOL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $50k
- CFCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +69%
- TPTHE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide educational services, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Graymer Phoenix Foundation 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 66 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GRAYMER PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds STEP FORWARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Shining Light Garden Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Peddie School ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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: Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Higgs Family Foundation · Jacobs Family Foundation Inc · Griffith-Laserson Family Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Carwill Foundation · The Berghorst Foundation Inc · The Toffey Family Charitable Trust · Lynch Family Foundation
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 Graymer Foundation 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.
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust 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.