· Private foundation
Gamba Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPOWER K12 | $27,500 |
| KIPP DC | $20,000 |
| CITY TUTOR DC | $20,000 |
| EDUCATION FORWARD DC | $20,000 |
| TWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| DC ED FUND | $14,052 |
| SELA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| DIGITAL PIONEERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| STATESMAN COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY FOR BOYS | $8,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHANGE SUMMER | $2,000 |
| FIHANKRA AKOMA NTOASO FAN | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 15% of Gamba Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 0% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 7%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KDKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +112%
- TRTWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +114%
- CTCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SCSTATEMAN COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY FOR BOYSone grant, 2022 · $11k
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -22%
- FVFREEDOM VIRTUE INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Dc prep's mission is to bridge the educational divide in washington, dc by increasing the number of students from underserved communities with the academic preparation and personal character to succeed in competitive high schools and…
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
Provide students with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
A professional learning community of master teachers and teacher residents who ensure that a diverse group of students achieve their potential as accomplished learners, thoughtful citizens, and imaginative and inquisitive problem solvers…
To prepare students to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.
The organization's mission is to enable a diverse group of children to meet high expectations, develop creativity, critical thinking, problem solving skills, and achieve a deep understanding of complex subjects, while acquiring a love of…
The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…
Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…
The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
To inspire inquiring, engaged, knowledgeable and caring secondary students who are multilingual, culturally competent, and committed to proactively creating a socially just and sustainable world.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 40 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.
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CITYBRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FORWARD DC ↗
- Who funds CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds EmpowerK12 Inc ↗
- Who funds CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL PIONEERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DC SCHOLARS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE SUMMER INC ↗
- Who funds KINDRED INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds I WILL MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE ↗
- Who funds Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD EDUCATION ↗
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: Education Forward DC · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Citybridge Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Gates Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Cityschools Collaborative · Flamboyan Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · New Schools Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gamba Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gamba Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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