· Private foundation
The Gregory and Vera Kiernan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC | $25,000 |
| DESTINATION COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL ACADEMY | $13,120 |
| POINT O WOODS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STONY KNOLL YOUTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| THE SHEFA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES | $5,000 |
| CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $2,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $1,500 |
| CHURCH AT POINT OWOODS | $1,250 |
| FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR | $1,000 |
| THE EYE-BANK FOR SIGHT RESTORATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SMSAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH6× · 2019–2024 · $261k · revenue +57%
- DCDESTINATION COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +230%
- CSCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC6× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- NSNEWBURGH SAN MIGUEL PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue -99%
- JBJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +1%
- TWThe Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +44%
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University and the most unlike its peers is Point O'woods Volunteer Fire Company. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 83 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 SAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POINT O'WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC ↗
- Who funds BEE THE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWBURGH SAN MIGUEL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds POINT O'WOODS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING ↗
- Who funds HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds The Gardner Marks Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Heffernan Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Express Foundation · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon 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 Gregory and Vera Kiernan 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.
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