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Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $913k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MGH TRANSFORMATIVE SCHOLARS IN CSF DISORDERS ENDOWED FUND | $250,000 |
| RAGE | $250,000 |
| NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTUCKET | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION R1 PLEDGE | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - DR WILLIAM CLANCY PROFESSORSHIP FUND | $62,500 |
| GROTON SCHOOL- ANNUAL APPEAL | $50,000 |
| HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE-RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY AND BIOMATERIALS SC | $50,000 |
| FENN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FLEUR DE LIS CAMP | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $5,000 |
| WILY NETWORK | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $428k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +42%
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $821k · revenue +288%- NCNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +405%
Funded once
- DFDrumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary co Mass Audobon Societyone grant, 2017 · $101k
- MAMASS AUDUBON-DRUMLIN FARMone grant, 2018 · $53k
- VUVANDERBILT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diabetes Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Concord Carlisle At Play 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 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 77 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 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CRANBERRY CUP CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLEUR DE LIS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Grant and Lara Gund Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Eastern Bank Foundation · Kane Wallace Foundation · The Jaket Foundation · The Boger Charitable Trust · Rosse Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust · The Ruettgers Family Charit Foundation · Comet Foundation F/K/A the Steinert 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 Zachary and Lindsey Gund 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.
- Diabetes Foundation Inc — 31% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Emerson Umbrella Inc — 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School 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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