How much does The Graymer Foundation give?

The Graymer Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $716,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Graymer Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (83%), Education (6%), Environment (3%).

Who are The Graymer Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Graymer Phoenix Foundation Inc ($4.1M), Wildlands Conservancy Inc ($265k), The Land Conservancy of New Jersey ($263k).

Does The Graymer Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Graymer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Graymer Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995, Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc, Indian River Community Foundation Inc.

Where is The Graymer Foundation based?

The Graymer Foundation is based in FL.

The Graymer Foundation

The Graymer Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$716k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$75k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

72% of The Graymer Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Indian River Community Foundation Inc, 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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$16MEducation$1.2MEnvironment$672kHealth$522kAnimals$164kHuman Services$159kFood & Nutrition$157kRecreation & Sports$134kOther$0

02FY2023 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k26 grants · $401k
$50k–250k5 grants · $295k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.2M · 43 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.2M

$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+90%

Still filing today

53%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

TL
THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY
5× · 2020–2024 · $263k · revenue +36%
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THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL
3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +73%
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Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
5× · 2020–2024 · $183k · revenue +56%

Funded once

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ST EDWARDS SCHOOL SWIM POOL FUND
one grant, 2021 · $50k
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CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMSgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +69%
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THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education

Delaware Valley University

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…

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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

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

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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Westminster College

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…

Education

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

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,…

Education

Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education

Point Park University

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…

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The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide educational services, see schedule o.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/39

Grantees still filing

32/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$16,327,544Other$1,478,450Environment$671,500Education$606,050Health$315,000Human Services$217,000Food & Nutrition$75,000

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

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.

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.

Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995FL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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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