· Private foundation
Gahan Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Parker Presbyterian Church | $4,551 |
| AdventHealth Foundtion | $1,500 |
| General Christmas Fund | $1,250 |
| Sanctuary House | $400 |
| Samaritans Purse | $265 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| Cru | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Gahan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 81%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPARKER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH5× · 2020–2025 · $51k
- VRVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue -79%
- MFMOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER2× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue -36%
Funded once
- PEParker Evangelical Presbyterian Chuone grant, 2021 · $7k
- HCHope City Churchone grant, 2021 · $5k
- GCGrand County Will Fireone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
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.
By providing wyoming services and materials such as: survivor of suicide attempt or lived experience support group, grace grief support group, suicide prevention materials, pamphlets, books, suicide prevention awareness events, suicide…
Good samaritan community food pantry serves isolated seniors, veterans, cancer patients, foster families and families at risk and in need. we deliver fresh, frozen, canned and boxed food items, toiletries and pet supplies weekly.
Hilltop community resources is dedicated to building a community where everyone belongs. our tailored programs address the unique needs of individuals and families, from behavioral health support and intimate partner violence services to…
Mission Church to tell the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who dont know.
Provide assistance and services to homeless persons in the grand valley.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Charitable assistance to indigent individuals and families in the greater golden, colorado area, which encompasses more that 18,000 residents.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gahan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gahan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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