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· Private foundation

Gary NFP

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$2.1MEducation$308kArts & Culture$225kCivil Rights$100kSocial Science$100kHousing & Shelter$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kHuman Services$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $188k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$187,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
BENTLEY SCHOOL$187,500
DIGNITYMOVES$25,000
UCSF Foundation$10,000
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 (FY17–22, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 11%CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%POVERTY ALLEVIATION CHICAGO: $10k → 14%OPEN BOOKS LTD: $50k → 14%CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%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

IL
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
NM
DC

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 11 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$4.6M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+22%

Still filing today

82%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther

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

  • BS
    BENTLEY SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $198k · revenue +7%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $85k · revenue +17%
  • BS
    Berkwood School
    3× · 2018–2020 · $50k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • BI
    BMORE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -87% · 53% of their budget
  • HR
    Heffter Research Institute Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $750k · revenue -100% · 26% of their budget
  • P
    PSFCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +183%

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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
2
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
3
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
Berkeley Public Library Foundation

The Berkeley Public Library Foundation (BPLF) amplifies the public investment to make a great public library extraordinary. To that end, we provide vital funds and ongoing advocacy to advance the Library's mission, vision, and strategic…

Philanthropy
6
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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7
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
8
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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9
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
10
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
11
The University of British Columbia

Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.

Education
12
Uc Berkeley Center for Executive Education

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esalen Institute and the most unlike its peers is Open Books. 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 backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsGovernment Accountability R…Homeless Services & ShelterClassical Music EnsemblesPublic University Foundatio…Public Library SupportFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsLand Conservation Organizat…Elementary Literacy TutoringNative Hawaiian Community D…Substance Abuse Treatment
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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%20%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%59%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr11%5%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,949

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

28 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. 28 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONHeffter Research Institute Inc — $750,000 · OtherHeffter Research Institute IncBENTLEY SCHOOL — $197,500 · Other+14 more — $332,050 · Other+14 moreBMORE INCORPORATED — $1,000,000 · HealthBMORE INCORPORATEDPSFC — $150,000 · HealthPSFCSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $85,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationBerkwood School — $50,000 · EducationMontessori Childrens House of the West Coast — $25,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $20,000 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $55,000 · Civil RightsKALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureHenry Miller Memorial Library — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute — $5,000 · Arts & CultureOPEN BOOKS — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION — $37,500 · Human ServicesLETTERS CHARITY — $10,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesESALEN INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Social Science
Other$5,279,550Health$1,150,000Education$250,000Civil Rights$155,000Arts & Culture$110,000Human Services$107,500Social Science$100,000

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 budgetBMORE INCORPORATED — $1,000,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetHeffter Research Institute Inc — $750,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBENTLEY SCHOOL — $197,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPSFC — $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetESALEN INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBerkwood School — $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR — $35,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontessori Childrens House of the West Coast — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSundance Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincThe William G Irwin C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY18.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Gary NFP 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 · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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