Arizona · 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.
- $82k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 66
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $848
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Gaf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 42 | $82k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $78k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $72k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $88k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $81k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $75k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $69k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hathaway Brown School | $43,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Hawken School | $26,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Harbor Hall Foundation | $18,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $16,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Heritage Action for America | $16,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Protection of Rights Alliance | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Young America's Foundation | $14,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Yosemite Church | $13,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $11,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Citizens Against Government Waste | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gaf Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Gaf Foundation
- How much does Gaf Foundation give?
- Gaf Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $81,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gaf Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (17%), Public Benefit (10%).
- Who are Gaf Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hathaway Brown School ($44k), Hawken School ($26k), Harbor Hall Foundation ($18k).
- Does Gaf Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gaf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gaf Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Offield Family Foundation, Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation, Triford Foundation.
- Where is Gaf Foundation based?
- Gaf Foundation is based in AZ.
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