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Big G Charitable Foundation Corp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

56% of Big G Charitable Foundation Corp’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Big G Charitable Foundation Corp named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $207k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
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4
’18
8
’19
20
’20
17
’21
12
’22
14
’23
17
’24
15
’25

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

01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$596kEnvironment$429kHealth$201kPublic Safety & Disaster$157kFood & Nutrition$149kReligion$99kInternational$60kArts & Culture$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $168k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZUFALL HEALTH CENTERS INC$25,000
WILDAID INC$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$20,000
SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION$20,000
THE VALERIE FUND$15,000
COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS$15,000
REEF RENEWAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$12,500
UPWELL TURTLES$10,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY$10,000
NOURISH NJ$10,000
THE RAPTOR TRUST$10,000
DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION$8,500
FRIENDS OF RANDOLPH ANIMAL POUND$7,500
CORAL REEF ALLIANCE$5,000
911 DOG & CAT RESCUE$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%COVENANT HOUSE OF NEW JERSEY: $1k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 16%HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
TN
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 27 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, 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

27
29

Total granted

$1.1M
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

70%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalHealthOther
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

  • SS
    SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $255k · revenue +128%
  • TV
    THE VALERIE FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +76%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $107k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF BIOCENTRISM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $79k
  • MI
    MALTESER INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • TA
    TURKS AND CAICOS REEF FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +312%
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.

1
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
5
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
8
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
11
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
12
Reef Check Foundation

Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Food Pantry Inc; the most unlike its peers is Captain Paul Watson Foundation. 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

47 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. 47 of the 75 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
26/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $321,400 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE VALERIE FUND: $115,000 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUNDCHURCH OF BIOCENTRISM INC: $79,000 · OtherCHURCH OF BIOCENTRISM INCCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF: $50,000 · OtherCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEFFRIENDS OF RANDOLPH ANIMAL POUND: $39,500 · Other+38 more: $244,333 · Other+38 moreSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $255,384 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOC…WILDAID INC: $80,000 · AnimalsWILDAID INCTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $40,000 · AnimalsTHE RAPTOR TRUSTUpwell Turtles: $30,000 · AnimalsUpwell TurtlesINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $25,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL…+5 more: $37,000 · Animals+5 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $107,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalOcean Alliance Inc: $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $25,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $15,000 · EnvironmentREEF RENEWAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $12,500 · EnvironmentTURKS AND CAICOS REEF FUND INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $37,000 · Food & NutritionA Well-Fed World: $35,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $22,000 · Food & NutritionNOURISHNJ INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $6,000 · Food & NutritionZUFALL HEALTH CENTER INC: $65,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $25,000 · Science & TechCAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Science & Tech
Other$849,233Animals$467,384International$127,000Environment$122,500Food & Nutrition$119,000Health$85,000Science & Tech$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $321,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $255,384 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $115,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $107,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetZUFALL HEALTH CENTER INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Alliance Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF RANDOLPH ANIMAL POUND: $39,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $37,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA Well-Fed World: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUpwell Turtles: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREEF RENEWAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $12,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURKS AND CAICOS REEF FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSewa International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE ANGELS PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE FRONTLINES NYC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOWA Rescue Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Galesi Family Fou…Community Foundation …Network for GoodVerizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…
The Galesi Family Foundation IncNJ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Galesi Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Network for Good · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Big G Charitable Foundation Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big G Charitable Foundation Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Zufall Health Center Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Big G Charitable Foundation Corp?

Find your warmest path to Big G Charitable Foundation Corp through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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