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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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$240kCivil Rights$100kYouth Development$35kEnvironment$30kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DRIFT MAGAZINE FOUNDATION$20,000
CULTUREHUB$20,000
N1 FOUNDATION$10,000
TRISKELION ARTS-KICK-STANDANCE INC$10,000
CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH INC$10,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ABRAHAM IN MOTION INC: $10k → 17%ABRAHAM IN MOTION INC: $10k → 17%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$320k · 10 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$320k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-1%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GF
    GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +53%
  • TD
    THE DRIFT MAGAZINE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +823%
  • RACE FORWARD
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • CH
    COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -32%
  • OM
    ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -68%
  • GP
    GRAYWOLF PRESS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
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.

04Its 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
New Dance Alliance Inc

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…

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2
Artnoir Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
3
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
4
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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5
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
6
Performance Space 122 Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Los Angeles Performance Practice

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Global Arts Project Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba Here Art Center

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.

Arts & Culture
10
En Garde Arts Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
11
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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12
Arts Letters and Numbers
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Research Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 21 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CULTUREHUB INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCULTUREHUB INCN1 FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureN1 FOUNDATIONGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGINA GIBNEY DANCE INCORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INCGRAYWOLF PRESS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGRAYWOLF PRESSTRISKELION ARTS-KICK-STANDANCE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTRISKELION ARTS-KICK-STANDANCE INCCENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH INCMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT RESEARCH INCTHE TANK LTD: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TANK LTDTHE DRIFT MAGAZINE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE DRIFT MAGAZIN…Abraham In Motion Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesAbraham In Motion…GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $50,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND F…RACE FORWARD: $40,000 · Community ImprovementRACE FORWAR…THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalTHE POSSI…COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC: $10,000 · OtherCOFFEE HO…NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $10,000 · OtherNEW ART P…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN …PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5,000 · OtherPLANNED P…THE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $5,000 · OtherTHE POETR…Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation: $30,000 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$150,000Human Services$65,000International$50,000Community Improvement$40,000Crime & Legal$35,000Other$35,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DRIFT MAGAZINE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetRACE FORWARD: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCULTUREHUB INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetN1 FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDrylands Agroecology Research Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAbraham In Motion Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…The Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…Jerome Foundation IncThe Hyde and Watson F…Silicon Valley Commun…Emma a Sheafer Charit…Council of Literary M…The Harkness Foundati…Booth Ferris Foundati…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…National Philanthropi…
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gaea Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gaea Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gaea Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Gaea Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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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