· Public charity
Gary and Vivienne Player Foundation
To support initiatives aimed at providing underprivileged and vulnerable children in impoverished communities with a safe and nurturing environment in which to thrive.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $720k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELEVATE AUGUSTA | $220,000 |
| Family Reach | $200,000 |
| Foundcare Inc | $150,000 |
| Place of Hope | $150,000 |
| Elevate USA | $42,500 |
| Gantry Group | $25,000 |
| PENN MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| AIM FOR THE HANDICAPPED | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $393k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- POPLACE OF HOPE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $675k · revenue -2%
- EAELEVATE AUGUSTA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $470k · 61% of their budget
- GFGANTRY FOUNDATION KRISTI GUBLER4× · 2022–2025 · $225k · revenue -31% · 52% of their budget
Funded once
- ECEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvaniaone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -3%
- CFCOLLEGE FOR KIDS INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -15%
- HDHOPE & DOORone grant, 2023 · $132k · revenue -20%
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.
As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…
Achievable health's mission is to provide high-quality healthcare to our community, with a specialty in treating individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Our vision is a nation where the best health and health care are equally accessible and affordable to all.
Reach healthcare's (reach) mission is to improve the overall healthcare experience for both patients and care providers and provide cost-effective solutions for payers. reach is focused on creating sustainable, large-scale improvements in…
To provide accountable, responsive quality care with the highest degree of sensitivity to the needs of our diverse, multilingual population while fulfilling the professional and educational needs of our members.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
We provide comprehensive care and resources for wellness with dignity and inclusivity.
Lift's mission is to break the cycle of poverty by investing in parents. we build families' well-being, financial strength, and social connections to lift two generations at once.
Purpose Built Families Foundation is a nationally-accredited 501c3 nonprofit that delivers compassionate, client-centered, trauma-informed care to address underlying causes of poverty, homelessness, addiction, and suicide.
Vitalant foundation secures and stewards charitable gifts to support vitalant's mission to unite blood and biologics donors, talent and innovation to save and improve lives.
Poise amplifies the power of black communities to fuel transformative change and uplift pathways to self-determination and shared success.
Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.
How this is measured
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 15 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 PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds GANTRY FOUNDATION KRISTI GUBLER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE & DOOR ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE USA ↗
- Who funds STAND UP AND PLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds AIM INC DBA AIM FOR THE HANDICAPPED ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gary and Vivienne Player Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary and Vivienne Player Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Foundcare Inc: 6% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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