· Private foundation
Gaea Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULTUREHUB | $20,000 |
| THE DRIFT MAGAZINE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| N1 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TRISKELION ARTS-KICK-STANDANCE INC | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GFGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +53%
- TDTHE DRIFT MAGAZINE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +823%
RACE FORWARD4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- TTTHE TANK LTDone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
- GPGRAYWOLF PRESSone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
- MRMOVEMENT RESEARCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +149%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…
ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
HERE builds an inclusive community that nurtures artists of all backgrounds as they disrupt conventional expectations to create innovative performances in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media, and visual art.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Research Inc and the most unlike its peers is Race Forward. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRIFT MAGAZINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RACE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds CULTUREHUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds N1 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Abraham In Motion Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TANK LTD ↗
- Who funds NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYWOLF PRESS ↗
- Who funds TRISKELION ARTS-KICK-STANDANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE POETRY PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006 · Council of Literary Magazines and Presses · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Gaea Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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