· Private foundation
Gaf Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL | $21,000 |
| HAWKEN SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| BAAS EDUCATIONAL TRUST UK | $3,000 |
| FURNISH HOPE DC | $3,000 |
| FREEDOM READS | $2,500 |
| THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION | $2,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE | $2,000 |
| MERCY FOR ANIMALS | $2,000 |
| HERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA | $2,000 |
| GIFFORDS LAW CENTER | $1,500 |
| UNWRA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE | $1,500 |
| FAMILY SURVIVOR NETWORK INC | $1,500 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- HBHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +48%
- HSHAWKEN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +76%
- HHHARBOR HALL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- OSOPTIONS SAVE LIVESone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -40%
- CFCROP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
- ATAROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICSone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -71%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
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.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Around the World in Eighty Fabrics. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
94 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. 94 of the 165 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 HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROTECTION OF RIGHTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HALL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
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 Offield Family Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Triford Foundation · Frey Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Souder Family Foundation · Affordable Housing Management Foundation · Bernard Family Foundation · Baiardi Family Foundation Inc · Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation Inc · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole 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 Gaf 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Family Survivor Network — 46% of income from government
- Freedom Reads Inc — 12% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.