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Gannett Foundation Inc at a glance

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Gannett Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.4MHuman Services$1.3MHealth$1.1MHousing & Shelter$809kEducation$778kArts & Culture$742kYouth Development$432kFood & Nutrition$429kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,667
Median grant
16
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS AGAINST GENOCIDE SOCIETY$5,000
EARTH ECHO INTERNATIONAL$5,000
ALEPH INSTITUTE$3,000
THE SAVE FARM$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,500
UNITED WAY METROPOLITAN DALLAS$2,500
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER & THE FINGER LAKES$2,500
GREY BULL RESCUE FOUNDATION CORP$2,500
500 WOMEN SCIENTISTS$2,500
NYSARC INC (THE ARC ROCKLAND)$2,000
ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS (AAPCHO)$2,000
APIA SCHOLARS$2,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INTERNATIONAL$2,000
TRANS YOUTH EQUALITY FOUNDATION$2,000
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $942k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAGGIES BY MAGGIE & FRIENDS: $25k → 10%COMMUNITY YOUTH AND WOMENS ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 6%HOSPICE & COMMUNITY CARE: $5k → 9%VISION APPALACHIA: $10k → 11%RACF- PUTNAM SERVICE DOGS INC: $10k → 6%RACF- INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC: $20k → 16%OAKS VILLAGE: $5k → 10%RACF- BURRITO BRIGADE: $9k → 15%431 MINISTRIES: $10k → 10%MY CUP OF TEA INC: $25k → 17%COASTAL GEORGIA AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AUTHORITY INC: $110k → 14%AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 18%SPENCER PRIDE: $25k → 14%LIFELINE INC: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS4HOPE: $25k → 5%RACF- HEBRON VA INC: $8k → 11%VISION APPALACHIA: $10k → 11%SHASTA COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC: $10k → 16%RACF- INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $20k → 16%HOSPICE HOMES OF GENESEE AND LAPEER COUNTIES: $15k → 16%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 21%BURRITO BRIGADE: $8k → 15%COASTAL GEORGIA AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AUTHORITY INC: $50k → 14%SPENCER PRIDE: $15k → 14%SHASTA COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $10k → 16%RACF- HIGHER HOPES: $8k → 8%COASTAL GEORGIA AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AUTHORITY INC: $10k → 14%REFUGEECONNECT: $25k → 16%HOMEAID NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $10k → 6%RACF- COVE COMMUNITIES SENIOR ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%INTEGRATIVE HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS INC: $10k → 7%SOUTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES: $25k → 17%RACF- FLOURISHNOW: $5k → 10%RACF- MY SISTERS CLOSET OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $6k → 18%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $7k → 8%HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 17%LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF INDIANA: $8k → 16%CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 15%HOMELESS CHILDRENS PLAYTIME PROJECT INC: $25k → 14%RACF- HOMELESS CHILDRENS PLAYTIME PROJECT INC: $10k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDRENS PLAYTIME PROJECT INC: $10k → 14%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $15k → 16%FOSTER360: $25k → 11%FOSTER360: $25k → 11%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $7k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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OH
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CA
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CO
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MO
KY
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VA
MD
DE
AZ
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NC
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DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Gannett Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Gannett Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 908 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

908
1017

Total granted

$4.7M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+16%

Still filing today

87%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    Tandem Community Birth Center and Postpartum House Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $185k · revenue +132% · 71% of their budget
  • HO
    HOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +40%
  • 8
    864PRIDE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $85k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • QC
    QUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $175k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $175k
  • HO
    HEART OF BUCKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $171k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition
2
Marin Humane Society

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.

Animals
3
Witness Inc

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…

International
4
Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health
5
University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
6
Petconnect Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
7
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
8
The Humane Society for Seattleking

Animal welfare organization

Animals
9
The Wildcat Sanctuary

Provide sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.

Animals
10
National Council of Jewish Women

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…

Community Improvement
11
Food & Water Watch
Food & Nutrition
12
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving; 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.
05the grantee network

1572 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. 1572 of the 2,000 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
299
Early backer (in before they grew)
1539/1572
Grantees still filing
1067/1572
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUARTET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $175,000 · OtherHEART OF BUCKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $170,625 · OtherINTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC: $155,000 · OtherHOMES 4 FAMILIES: $150,000 · Other+114 more: $2,961,202 · Other+114 moreROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,676,000 · PhilanthropyROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY F…+7 more: $127,488 · Philanthropy+7 moreCOASTAL GEORGIA AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AUTHORITY INC: $174,000 · Human ServicesCOASTAL GE…FOSTER 360: $50,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER 360HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $45,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS C…SPENCER PRIDE: $39,512 · Human ServicesSPENCER PR…WAGGIES BY MAGGIE AND FRIENDS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesRefugeeConnect: $30,000 · Human ServicesINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA INTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES: $30,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS4HOPE: $27,500 · Human ServicesMy Cup of Tea Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES: $25,000 · Human Services+11 more: $179,171 · Human Services+11 moreTandem Community Birth Center and Postpartum House Inc: $185,000 · Health13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT INC: $67,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $34,896 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,463 · HealthCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER: $28,084 · HealthFox Valley Memory Project Inc: $25,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $23,744 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $20,000 · HealthFree Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge: $17,000 · Health+4 more: $52,546 · HealthKURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $77,500 · Arts & CultureCOACHELLA VALLEY JOURNALISM FOUNDATION: $28,802 · Arts & CultureWords Beats and Life Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD CHAMBER CHORUS: $22,500 · Arts & CultureNATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $15,905 · Arts & CulturekidSTREAM: $15,400 · Arts & CultureRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $14,300 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX CHILDRENS CHORUS INC: $13,400 · Arts & CultureRAGTAG FILM SOCIETY: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $12,317 · Arts & CultureJOY OF MUSIC YOUTH MUSIC SCHOOL CORPORATION: $12,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $11,230 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,200 · Arts & CultureNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $54,720 · EducationNEVADA CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: $30,900 · EducationLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $29,281 · EducationGainesville for All: $27,777 · EducationMARIPOSA FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $27,000 · EducationMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $18,600 · EducationTHE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 · EducationWellesley College: $11,224 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $11,150 · EducationEVERYBODY WINS - IOWA: $11,100 · EducationIvymount Foundation Inc: $10,170 · EducationFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,160 · EducationMARIN ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationMARION HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI: $10,000 · EducationKEEPING OUR PROMISE INC: $60,000 · InternationalGlobal Impact: $56,147 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $35,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,507 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $22,851 · InternationalTHE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC: $20,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $14,940 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $13,127 · International
Other$3,786,827Philanthropy$1,803,488Human Services$685,183Health$484,233Arts & Culture$316,054Education$299,582International$252,572

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,676,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTandem Community Birth Center and Postpartum House Inc: $185,000 over 3y, 71% of budgetCOASTAL GEORGIA AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AUTHORITY INC: $174,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC: $155,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budget864PRIDE: $85,200 over 2y, 17% of budgetCIUDAD NUEVA COMMUNITY OUTREACH IN: $85,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetRULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetKURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC: $77,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWHITNEY STRONG INC: $77,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetCARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 10% of budget13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT INC: $67,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetMOVE FOR HUNGER INC: $67,055 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKEEPING OUR PROMISE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetGlobal Impact: $56,147 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $54,720 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE REACTION LAB: $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOPE INSPIRED MINISTRIES INC: $49,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $45,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHEARTBOUND MINISTRIES INC: $43,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSPENCER PRIDE: $39,512 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE NEST BOWLING GREEN: $39,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $35,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetBlack Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis: $35,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $34,896 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL YOUTH SERVICES: $34,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNEVADA CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: $30,900 over 2y, 10% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,507 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,463 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACTION COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWAGGIES BY MAGGIE AND FRIENDS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetRefugeeConnect: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOLAR AUSTIN: $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA INTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES: $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $29,281 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY JOURNALISM FOUNDATION: $28,802 over 3y, 40% of budgetCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER: $28,084 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGainesville for All: $27,777 over 1y, 17% of budgetCROSSROADS4HOPE: $27,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAsheville GreenWorks: $27,350 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIPOSA FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $27,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMy Cup of Tea Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Rochester Area Commun…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Thunderbirds CharitiesPaychex Charitable Fo…Virginia G Piper Char…Greater Rochester Hea…United Way of Greater…The Tapestry Foundati…Kate Spade New York F…Mightycause Charitabl…Philip L Graham Fund …Rochester Female Char…
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY62.1× affinity211 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gannett Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gannett Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gannett Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gannett Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2025, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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