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Chris and Dee Dee Gibson Fndn at a glance

· Private foundation

Chris and Dee Dee Gibson Fndn

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.

$900k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$1.5MPhilanthropy$280kAnimals$255kFood & Nutrition$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kHuman Services$100kYouth Development$100k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$150,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FDN$500,000
FEEDING AMERICA TEXAS$150,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$150,000
GREAT LIFE MONTORING$100,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 10%BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 12%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.
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 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
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
2
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Aid for Starving Children

Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.

International
4
Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition
5
Feeding Children Everywhere Inc

Feeding children everywhere is committed to providing healthy meals to those in need. we are committed to sustainability. creating a hunger-free world will be possible if we have an awareness of our impact on the world around us. we have…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Food Foundation

To provide a much-needed third meal of the day to food-insecure children.

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7
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
8
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
9
Feeding the Carolinas

The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
11
Feeding the Gulf Coast

The Organization is a tax-exempt food distribution center committed to providing nutritionally balanced food for hungry people in 24 counties in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.

Food & Nutrition
12
Feeding America's Children

Collection and distribution of food and medical supplies to those in need in Arizona, the United States and other desperate famine stricken third world countries.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed the Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Sterling Donor Advised Fund. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $1,000,000 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $500,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF…THE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $280,000 · PhilanthropyTHE STERLING…Alley Cat Allies Inc: $254,597 · AnimalsAlley Cat A…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $50,000 · InternationalFEEDING AMERICA TEXAS: $150,000 · Food & NutritionGREAT LIFE MENTORING: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBirch Community Services Inc: $100,000 · Human Services
Other$1,000,000Health$500,000Philanthropy$280,000Animals$254,597International$200,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Youth Development$100,000Human Services$100,000

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 budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $280,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $254,597 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TEXAS: $150,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetGREAT LIFE MENTORING: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBirch Community Services Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $50,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chris and Dee Dee Gibson Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chris and Dee Dee Gibson Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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