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Gag Charitable Corporation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC | $5,000 |
| KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| CLAREMONT-MCKENNA COLLEGE BAUER CEN | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL M S SOCIETY-NORTHERN CA CH | $1,500 |
| GRAND CANYON TRUST | $1,500 |
| NATURE COLLECTIVE SAN ELIJO LAG CON | $1,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,500 |
| PUBLIC RADIO TELEVISION KQED | $1,500 |
| FORT BRAGG FOOD BANK | $1,250 |
| PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| PUBLIC RADIO JPR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430 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
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +7%
- TGTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +20%
- MFMendocino Food and Nutrition Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- MCMENDOCINO COAST DIST HOSP HOSPICE Pone grant, 2022 · $750
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEEone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -3%
- SESchepens Eye Research Institute Incone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.
Rancho santa ana botanic gardens promotes botany, conservation, and horticulture to inspire, inform and educate the public and scientific community about california's native flora. the garden is devoted to the collection, cultivation,…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.
Our mission is to support california farmers and communities by providing farmers markets for our diverse bay area neighborhoods. we do this by operating certified farmers markets in six bay area counties. these farmers markets provide…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is National Dance Institute. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 50 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 VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Pesticide Action Network North America ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MASLOW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ROGUE VALLEY FOOD SYSTEM NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HALLECK CREEK RANCH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS TO THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OUR FAMILY FARMS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds BY THE BAY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Schroon Lake Association ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO AREA PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Tarbell Family Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Gag Charitable Corporation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rogue Farm Corps — 91% of income from government
- Maslow Project — 22% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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.
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