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Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation at a glance

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Gary & Catherine L Graham 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$70kReligion$68kAnimals$28kPhilanthropy$28kHousing & Shelter$25kEducation$20kHealth$14kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$923k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES$20,000
DAMIANO CENTER$10,000
HOPE CLINIC$10,000
SECOND HARVEST$5,000
TEXANS ON MISSION$2,500
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
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 (FY18–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DAMIANO CENTER: $10k → 15%Damiano Center: $5k → 15%Interactive Resource Center: $5k → 16%Friendship House: $5k → 14%Faith in Action: $5k → 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

MN
MI
NV
PA
CA
KY
NC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$83k · 4 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$83k
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEmploymentEducationOther
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

  • KAMBLY LIVING CENTER
    3× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +53%
  • HM
    HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +15%
  • DO
    DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC
    2× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • PC
    Presbyterian Church
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue ×45
  • BP
    BISSELL Pet Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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
Fulfillment House Inc
Health
2
Diversified Services Inc

To provide training and independent living skills to individuals with development disabilities so they may become as self-reliant as possible and lead more meaningful lives in the community.

Employment
3
Pawfectly Delicious Dog Treats

To provide young adults with disabilities the opportunity to engage in meaningful work and job training in an inclusive environment that celebrates their varying talents and connects them with the community

Human Services
4
Bakersfield Arc Inc

assist developmentally disabled individuals.

Human Services
5
Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

Human Services
6
Arch Inc

Make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships. To foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of our members, while being faithful to the…

Human Services
7
Progress Center for Independent Living

Progress center for independent living is a consumer controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential, private nonprofit agency that has been designed by individuals with disa biilities to operate within suburban cook county,…

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8
Center for Independence Inc

The Center for Independence promotes community solutions and empowers individuals with disabilities to live independently.

Human Services
9
Compassion Cafe a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Compassion Cafe seeks the integration of people with intellectual and developmentaldisabilities through hands-on training and employment in a small coffee shopenvironment.

Employment
10
Douglas Arc Inc

To support and involve people with developmental disabilities from the douglas, az area in the community to meet the needs of all citizens and provide a place where these people can learn, work and live without un-do restrictions while…

Human Services
11
Disability Resource Center

To empower persons with disabilities to achieve and maintain independence in their communities. the disability resource center provides services to people of all ages with all types of disabilities, as well as to those who support them.

Human Services
12
Dc Center for Independent Living

To assist persons with severe disabilities and impairments by integrating them into mainstream society and minimizing their defpendence upon others

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Interactive Resource Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 23 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KAMBLY LIVING CENTER: $35,250 · OtherKAMBLY LIVING CENTERPresbyterian Church: $25,000 · OtherPresbyterian ChurchBattle Creek Shelter: $20,000 · OtherBattle Creek ShelterTHE HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES OF BATTLE CREEK: $20,000 · OtherTHE HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES OF BATTLE CREEKHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $20,000 · OtherHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INCTEXAS BAPTIST MEN INC: $12,500 · OtherTEXAS BAPTIST MEN INCPresbyterian Church (USA): $10,000 · OtherPresbyterian Church (USA)+6 more: $27,000 · Other+6 moreVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER FLORIDA F…BISSELL Pet Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyBISSELL Pet Foundat…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF D…FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP H…FAITH IN ACTION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAITH IN ACT…THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE INTERACT…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationWILLARD LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationA SPECIAL BLEND INC: $5,000 · Employment
Other$169,750Philanthropy$47,500Human Services$30,000Education$20,000Employment$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKAMBLY LIVING CENTER: $35,250 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLARD LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA SPECIAL BLEND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Arc of Greensboro Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 23 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.

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