· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES | $5,000 |
| THE SHEFA SCHOOL | $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 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
| THE EYE-BANK FOR SIGHT RESTORATION | $1,000 |
| RISE FOR REW | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 83 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gregory and Vera Kiernan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gregory and Vera Kiernan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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