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Emerald Gate Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$6.2MPhilanthropy$4.5MHealth$3.5MScience & Tech$2.3MYouth Development$1.6MArts & Culture$1.2MInternational$623kSocial Science$500kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.2M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$179M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE DAF$3,000,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$900,000
PYRAMID LAKE PAIUTE TRIBE$250,000
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$100,000
THE MILO FOUNDATION$50,000
MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO SPCA$50,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%Consciousness and Healing Initiative: $95k → 11%CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIVE: $45k → 11%NEW STORY INC: $50k → 10%New Story Inc: $25k → 10%New Story Inc: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
WY
IA
CT
CA
UT
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 24 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
22

Total granted

$16M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+18%

Still filing today

50%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsScience & TechInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • DS
    DREW SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +49%
  • MA
    MD Anderson Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +218%
  • CE
    CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $600k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • MA
    MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $600k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
3
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
4
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
5
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
6
Health Effects Institute

Health effects institute's mission is to conduct independent research to provide high-quality, impartial and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. this is done by identifying the highest priority areas for health effect…

Health
7
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…

8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
9
Institute for Systems Biology

Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…

Science & Tech
10
Van Andel Research Institute

Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.

Health
11
Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical (continued on…

Science & Tech
12
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inquiring Systems Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paradox Science Institute. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Animal Rescue and AdoptionGovernment Accountability R…Native Hawaiian Community D…Public School District Foun…Independent K-8 SchoolsCancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,531

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.

04the grantee network

28 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITABLE DAF — $4,500,000 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE DAFMT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL — $1,701,060 · OtherMT TAMALPAIS SCHOOLDREW SCHOOL — $1,250,000 · OtherDREW SCHOOLMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $1,041,448 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERYALE UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $950,000 · OtherATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAEVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGHSCHOOL FOUNDATION — $910,000 · OtherEVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGHSCHOOL FOUNDATIONYALE UNIVERSITY — $600,000 · Other+31 more — $3,577,740 · Other+31 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,000,000 · EducationPresident a…Emory University — $900,000 · EducationEmory Unive…Trustees of Tufts College — $251,258 · EducationTrustees of…+3 more — $55,000 · EducationINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $1,277,719 · Science & Tech+1 more — $19,073 · Science & TechMD Anderson Foundation — $1,081,557 · Philanthropy+1 more — $21,500 · PhilanthropyPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $820,000 · Youth DevelopmentCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $600,000 · InternationalTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $23,300 · InternationalENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $350,000 · Environment
Other$15,530,248Education$2,206,258Science & Tech$1,296,792Philanthropy$1,103,057Youth Development$820,000International$623,300Environment$350,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $1,277,719 over 7y, 12% of budgetDREW SCHOOL — $1,250,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMD Anderson Foundation — $1,081,557 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $900,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $820,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $600,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $350,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Institute for Therapeutic Discovery Inc — $303,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $251,258 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIVE INC — $140,465 over 2y, 27% of budgetNEW STORY INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $71,635 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILO FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $23,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL — $21,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetParadox Science Institute — $19,073 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA LITTLE HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF HEARTMATH — $3,283 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERTRIBAL FRIENDSHIP HOUSE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES
  • Who funds DREW SCHOOL
  • Who funds MD Anderson Foundation
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds Emory University
  • Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC
  • Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
  • Who funds The Institute for Therapeutic Discovery Inc
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
  • Who funds CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING INITIATIVE INC
  • Who funds NEW STORY INC
  • Who funds St John's Health Foundation
  • Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC
  • Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds THE MILO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Emerald Gate Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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