How much does Gat Family Foundation give?

Gat Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $483,814 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Gat Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Religion (19%), Youth Development (15%).

Who are Gat Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County ($235k), Rolf Benirschke Legacy Foundation ($210k), Old Globe Theatre ($190k).

Does Gat Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gat Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Gat Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seckinger Foundation Corporation, Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation, PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr.

Where is Gat Family Foundation based?

Gat Family Foundation is based in CA.

Gat Family Foundation

Gat Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$484k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$128k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$977kReligion$700kYouth Development$579kPhilanthropy$346kAnimals$323kHealth$300kRecreation & Sports$202kEducation$157kOther$0

02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k41 grants · $57k
$10k–50k4 grants · $101k
$50k–250k3 grants · $325k

$600

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MONTEREY COUNTY	$5,000
PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
KREITZERS CRITTER CORRAL PUPPYRESCUE	$5,000
SALVATION ARMY	$4,000
MERCY CORPS	$3,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.4M · 78 repeat orgs$273k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.4M

$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+31%

Still filing today

79%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

SF
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County
8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +88%
RB
ROLF BENIRSCHKE LEGACY FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +147%
OG
OLD GLOBE THEATRE
2× · 2023–2024 · $190k · revenue +20%

Funded once

TL
THE LEGACY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue ×13
WGBH Educational Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +1%
CF
Champions for Youth Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +52%

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.

United Animal Nations Dba Redrover

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…

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American Humane Association

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…

Animals

The California Wildlife Center

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,…

Health

Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals

Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

World Animal Protection

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…

Animals

San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.

Animals

The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals

Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

116/118

Grantees still filing

84/118

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,426,593Animals$333,251Arts & Culture$304,199Philanthropy$241,626Public Benefit$210,500Recreation & Sports$142,960Education$98,529

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.

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.

Seckinger Foundation CorporationFL34.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gat Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gat Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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The camps

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By state

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