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Gatewood 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.

$270k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$623kEducation$444kPublic Benefit$399kArts & Culture$191kHealth$139kCrime & Legal$65kRecreation & Sports$11kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$785k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$95,000
ARBOR SCHOOL$87,500
MAKE A WISH$36,300
SEAL LEGACY FOUNDATION$25,000
SECOND BAPTIST SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$10,000
THE HOBBY CENTER$6,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Adaptive Training Foundation: $5k → 8%Open Door Recovery House: $10k → 9%Open Door Recovery House: $5k → 9%Boys & Girls Country of Houston Inc: $130k → 16%Boys & Girls Country of Houston: $102k → 16%Boys & Girls Country of Houston Inc: $75k → 16%Boys Girls Country of Houston Inc: $65k → 16%Boys Girls Country of Houston Inc: $50k → 16%Boys Girls Country of Houston Inc: $45k → 16%Boys Girls Country of Houston Inc: $25k → 16%Project Joy and Hope: $5k → 16%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.
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 13 repeat orgs$418k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+20%

Still filing today

77%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitReligionInternationalOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $492k · revenue +21%
  • SL
    Seal Legacy Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $399k · revenue +74%
  • TA
    THE ARBOR SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue -28%
  • CH
    Civic Health Coalition
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • MF
    Make-A-Wish Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
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
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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2
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
3
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
4
Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation

To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.

Health
5
Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…

Crime & Legal
6
Texas Ballet Theater Inc

Texas ballet theater creates, presents, and tours world class ballet, from classical to cutting edge, and promotes its appreciation, accessibility, and technical mastery among students, pre-professionals, and audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
7
North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy
8
Oklahoma Tennis Foundation

Oklahoma Tennis Foundation positively impacts lives by supporting & funding organizations that promote tennis & education throughout the great State of Oklahoma.

Recreation & Sports
9
The Universal Ballet Foundation

To find, train, and educate students who show excellence in their artistic potential for ballet.

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10
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc

The tim tebow foundation exists to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need.

Philanthropy
11
Houston Bar Foundation

The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.

Crime & Legal
12
New Orleans Baptist Seminary Foundation

To support the activities of the new orleans baptist theological seminary as a church school for the southern baptist convention primarily through endowments and gifts.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas; the most unlike its peers is The Artist Book 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

17 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. 17 of the 29 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)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $492,080 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOU…+3 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUT Longhorn Foundation: $59,480 · OtherUT Longhorn FoundationCivic Health Coalition: $50,000 · OtherCivic Health CoalitionCENTER FOR COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $50,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMBATING HUMAN…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $49,200 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF …Make-A-Wish Foundation: $40,000 · OtherMake-A-Wish FoundationMAKE A WISH: $36,300 · OtherMAKE A WISHWichita State University: $30,000 · OtherWichita State UniversityScripps Health Foundation: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $35,500 · Other+5 moreSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $398,500 · Public BenefitSeal Legacy Foundation…THE ARBOR SCHOOL: $295,000 · EducationTHE ARBOR SCHOOLWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationWICHITA STATE UNIVERSI…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL …The Hobby Center Foundation: $30,800 · Arts & CultureThe Hobby …THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTIST…BAY AREA HOUSTON BALLET & THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Esteban Toledo Family Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCollege Golf Fellowship: $6,000 · ReligionEVERY VILLAGE: $4,148 · International
Human Services$517,080Other$470,480Public Benefit$398,500Education$385,000Arts & Culture$190,800Philanthropy$10,000Religion$6,000International$4,148

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $492,080 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $398,500 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetTHE ARBOR SCHOOL: $295,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $50,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $49,200 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hobby Center Foundation: $30,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetOPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $15,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetThe Esteban Toledo Family Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBAY AREA HOUSTON BALLET & THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSECOND BAPTIST SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAdaptive Training Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVERY VILLAGE: $4,148 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Baker Hughes Foundati…Communities Foundatio…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX19.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Artist Book Foundation: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Gatewood Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gatewood Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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