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Gardner Grout Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$56M
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$19M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Philanthropy$57MHealth$1.7MArts & Culture$1.3MPublic Benefit$1.2MEducation$943kRecreation & Sports$421kEnvironment$396kAnimals$175kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$18,601,852
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MALOU FOUNDATION$18,601,852
GK GROUT FOUNDATION$18,601,852
QUINN HILL FOUNDATION$18,601,852
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS REPUBLIC: $37k → 14%TRAUMA HEALING PROJECT: $3k → 15%ORCAS FAMILY CONNECTION: $1k → 10%MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $5k → 8%BOYS REPUBLIC: $12k → 14%TRAUMA HEALING PROJECT: $3k → 15%MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $5k → 8%BOYS REPUBLIC: $2k → 14%TRAUMA HEALING PROJECT: $3k → 15%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 17%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%HEARTS WITH A MISSION: $10k → 13%WALK WITH SALLY: $15k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $15k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 100 repeat orgs$57M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

100 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 100 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
67

Total granted

$5.9M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+26%

Still filing today

73%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $475k · revenue +16%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $365k · revenue +12%
  • HH
    HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $275k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • GP
    GH - PAY IT FORWARD (DONOR ADVISED FUND)
    one grant, 2022 · $173k
  • GS
    GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FBO BRENT AND
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • GM
    GH - MALOU FUND DAF (DONOR ADVISED FUND)
    one grant, 2022 · $126k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
2
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
8
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
9
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Santa Barbara Foundation

The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.

Philanthropy
12
The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Malou Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySchool District FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Addiction Recovery ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…School Parent OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesDevelopmental Disabilities …Christian Missionary Organi…United Way AffiliatesAffordable Housing Construc…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%91%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%4%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 91% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/126
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,852

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.

04the grantee network

123 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. 123 of the 174 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/123
Grantees still filing
87/123
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MALOU FOUNDATION — $18,601,852 · PhilanthropyTHE MALOU FOUNDATIONQUINN HILL FOUNDATION — $18,601,852 · PhilanthropyQUINN HILL FOUNDATIONGK Grout Foundation — $18,601,852 · PhilanthropyGK Grout Foundation+4 more — $955,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT VERITAS — $345,000 · OtherUSC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $225,000 · OtherGH - PAY IT FORWARD (DONOR ADVISED FUND) — $173,000 · OtherGOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FBO BRENT AND — $150,000 · OtherHOAG NURSING PROGRAM — $150,000 · OtherPacific Legal Foundation — $160,000 · Other+108 more — $2,895,700 · OtherHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $275,000 · HealthHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES — $150,000 · HealthPasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $125,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $59,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital — $55,000 · HealthASANTE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $40,000 · Health+13 more — $186,000 · HealthJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $475,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $365,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS — $40,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $15,000 · Public BenefitHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $225,000 · Arts & CultureJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc — $115,000 · Arts & CultureLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTALENT MAKER CITY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $91,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $296,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $125,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE SCHOOL — $65,000 · EducationELECTION INTEGRITY PROJECT CALIFORNIA INC — $40,000 · Education+5 more — $36,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $140,000 · Recreation & SportsCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY — $125,000 · Recreation & SportsSANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC — $95,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsSANTA BARBARA SHOWGROUNDS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$56,760,556Other$4,098,700Health$935,000Public Benefit$895,000Arts & Culture$646,000Education$562,000Recreation & Sports$430,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MALOU FOUNDATION — $18,601,852 over 1y, 87% of budgetQUINN HILL FOUNDATION — $18,601,852 over 1y, 81% of budgetGK Grout Foundation — $18,601,852 over 1y, 96% of budgetDonors Trust Inc — $850,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $475,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $365,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS — $345,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $296,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $160,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY — $135,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY — $125,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc — $115,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER — $105,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC — $95,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE SCHOOL — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $59,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Republic — $51,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTALENT MAKER CITY — $50,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetACCESS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASANTE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FAIR ELECTIONS — $40,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetELECTION INTEGRITY PROJECT CALIFORNIA INC — $40,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROGUE VALLEY — $40,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWALK WITH SALLY — $40,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetIDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST — $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAMBURU PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS — $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Mosher FoundationThe Oregon Community …The Carpenter Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…The Malou FoundationCarrico Family Founda…Manitou FundSanta Barbara Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Pasadena Community Fo…Orange County Communi…
Mosher FoundationCA30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mosher Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Malou Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · Manitou Fund · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation

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 Gardner Grout Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Access — 65% of income from government
  • Hearts With a Mission — 51% of income from government
  • United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Ashland Community Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 174 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines