· Private foundation
Gaughan 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $800,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $450,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $200,000 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTER HERITAGE | $25,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON CATHOLIC SCH | $25,000 |
| PRCA PRO RODEO HALL OF FAME | $25,000 |
| CRISTO REY ST VIATOR LAS VEGAS COLL | $25,000 |
| CORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF AMERI | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF LAS VEGAS CATHOLIC SCHO | $10,000 |
| ST VIATOR CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST ANTHONY PADUA ROMAN CATHOLIC SCH | $10,000 |
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +110% since the first grant, against +70% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCreighton University8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +48%
University of San Francisco8× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +14%- GAGrant A Gift Autism Foundation4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +401%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $950k · revenue +70%
- TATEXAS A Mone grant, 2017 · $250k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +32%
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
See Disclosure Above.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Education and Research
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 26 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 Creighton University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds Grant A Gift Autism Foundation ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Gaughan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gaughan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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