· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $913k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAGE | $250,000 |
| THE MGH TRANSFORMATIVE SCHOLARS IN CSF DISORDERS ENDOWED FUND | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION R1 PLEDGE | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTUCKET | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - DR WILLIAM CLANCY PROFESSORSHIP FUND | $62,500 |
| HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE-RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY AND BIOMATERIALS SC | $50,000 |
| GROTON SCHOOL- ANNUAL APPEAL | $50,000 |
| FENN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FLEUR DE LIS CAMP | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $5,000 |
| PHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMY | $5,000 |
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 (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 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 +33% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 77 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 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 CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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