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Gat Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRO KIDS | $128,494 |
| OLD GLOBE THEATRE | $100,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER INC | $96,878 |
| ROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SPCA FOR MONTEREY COUNTY | $28,000 |
| WSCGA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $13,000 |
| KQED | $9,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $8,000 |
| KREITZERS CRITTER CORRAL PUPPYRESCUE | $5,000 |
| PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MONTEREY COUNTY | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $4,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $3,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SFSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +88%
- RBROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +147%
- OGOLD GLOBE THEATRE2× · 2023–2024 · $190k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEGACY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue ×13
WGBH Educational Foundationone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +1%- CFChampions for Youth Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +52%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Alaska Airlines 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
118 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. 118 of the 152 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County ↗
- Who funds ROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER ↗
- Who funds CENTURY CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Diego Opera Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Champions for Youth Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOF SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPOT ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds REBEL GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCDRINC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds KREITZERS CRITTER CORRAL PUPPYRESCUE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Farrell Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Bernard Weinberg Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Grace and Li Yu Family Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · The Joe M & Doris R Dealey Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
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 Gat Family 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
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.
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