· Private foundation
Gannett Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EARTH ECHO INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS AGAINST GENOCIDE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ALEPH INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| 500 WOMEN SCIENTISTS | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER & THE FINGER LAKES | $2,500 |
| GREY BULL RESCUE FOUNDATION CORP | $2,500 |
| THE SAVE FARM | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $2,500 |
| TRANS YOUTH EQUALITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| APIA SCHOLARS | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| NYSARC INC (THE ARC ROCKLAND) | $2,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS (AAPCHO) | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $943k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Gannett Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
908 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 902 since wound down; 25 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- TCTandem Community Birth Center and Postpartum House Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $185k · revenue +132% · 71% of their budget
- HOHOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +40%
- 8864PRIDE2× · 2021–2022 · $85k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $175k
- QCQUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $175k
- HOHEART OF BUCKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $171k
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.
Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.
Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.
Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…
To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Petconnect rescue is a foster-based animal welfare organization dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and cats, providing them with high quality care, and adopting them to loving homes. we are committed to ensuring a highly positive rescue…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Animal welfare organization
Provide sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.
Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…
A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is John Muir Health. 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 33 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
1572 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. 1572 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tandem Community Birth Center and Postpartum House Inc ↗
- Who funds COASTAL GEORGIA AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds 864PRIDE ↗
- Who funds CIUDAD NUEVA COMMUNITY OUTREACH IN ↗
- Who funds RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds 13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds KEEPING OUR PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE REACTION LAB ↗
- Who funds FOSTER 360 ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPENCER PRIDE ↗
- Who funds THE NEST BOWLING GREEN ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · The Tapestry Foundation Inc · Kate Spade New York Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Rochester Female Charitable Society
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 Gannett Foundation Inc 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.
- Havenly — 40% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Waggies By Maggie and Friends Inc — 25% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- CROSSROADS4HOPE — 1% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gainesville for All — 0% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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