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· Private foundation
EVELYN E & RICHARD J GUNST FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$51k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
5
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Arts & Culture$71kEducation$71kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$36kCivil Rights$30kEnvironment$20kInternational$15kReligion$12kHealth$6kOther$99k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
generation
2019
generation
2020
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2021
bluefield
2022
bluefield
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$8,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ARC ATHENS INC$20,000
- THE TESFA FOUNDATION$8,000
- JAH WORKS INC$8,000
- HENRICO CASA$6,000
- LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN$5,000
- RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC$4,000
02The need
04
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 (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$370k · 14 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -32% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
6
Total granted
$370k
$34k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+31%
-32%
Still filing today
64%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationEnvironmentCivil RightsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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
- AAARC ATHENS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +1158% · 37% of their budget
- JLJACOB'S LADDER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +15%
- RFRAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- BRBEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYSone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -32%
- CTCOMING TO THE TABLE - RVAone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -14%
- DMDEVELOPMENTAL MOVEMENT PROJECT INCone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -42%
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
Groundwork Rva Inc
Mission: to cultivate the next generation of urban conservationists in richmond, virginia. vision: groundwork rva works with richmond youth to increase environmental, economic, and social well-being in neighborhoods by transforming…
Community Improvement
2
Girls Going Global
Girls Going Global empowers girls to be global citizens by providing the tools, mentorship, and educational experiences, to become thoughtful and compassionate global leaders.
Youth Development
3
The Gaples Institute
Health
4
AKADEMIYA2063
Program Accomplishments During the reporting period, AKADEMIYA2063 successfully maintained progress under its core programs and projects. Key accomplishments are summarized below: 1. Publication of flagship annual reports and publications…
International
5
Ghana Girls Connect
Ghana Girls Connect, Inc. exists to empower young women of the diaspora to pursue their creative passions and turn them into sustainable professional careers. Through cultural immersion, professional development, and women empowerment…
Public Benefit
6
The George Washington University
Education and research
Education
7
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Environment
8
Washington Institute for Near East
To advance a balanced and realistic understanding of american interests in the middle east.
International
9
Harlem Arts Foundation
The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…
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10
Green Global Org
Environment
11
The School for Global Thinkers
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
Education
12
Global Seedsowers
Religion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rain for the Sahel and Sahara Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hampden-Sydney College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$132,000Arts & Culture$71,000Education$71,000Youth Development$50,400Human Services$36,000Civil Rights$30,000Environment$19,500
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ARC ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TESFA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S LADDER INC ↗
- Who funds RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICA WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JAH WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION TO GENERATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS ↗
- Who funds COMING TO THE TABLE - RVA ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL MOVEMENT PROJECT 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.
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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 organisation EVELYN E & RICHARD J GUNST FOUNDATION 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ARC ATHENS INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 12.6× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 821403841 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ARC ATHENS INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Evelyn E & Richard J Gunst Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines