· Private foundation
Dw Gore Family 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $625k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVEWELL MAXIMUM IMPACT FUND | $250,000 |
| PENCILS OF PROMISE | $100,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BROOKINGS INSTITUTION | $50,000 |
| CLIMATE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING INITIATIVE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| BUILDING EXCELLENT SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| YEAR UP | $50,000 |
| JUMPSTART | $50,000 |
| OUR WORLD IN DATA | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $50,000 |
| MIT POVERTY ACTION LAB | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR AI SAFETY | $25,000 |
| LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
28 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CLEAR FUND4× · 2022–2025 · $470k · revenue +79%
- WFWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +128%
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- MCMercatus Center Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -4%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AALLFEDone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds BES INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER SCHOOL OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Center for AI Safety Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ALMA DEL MAR 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dw Gore Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dw Gore Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Leading Youth Through Empowerment Inc: 39% of income from government
- Charter School of Wilmington Inc: 2% of income from government
- American Physical Society: 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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