· Private foundation
Gbl Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WALKER SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| HALE PRESERVATION | $10,000 |
| JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STONELIGH BURNAM SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE | $2,500 |
| BRUNSWICK SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| REACH PREP | $1,500 |
| WESTWARD LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +55% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION4× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +54%- HEHALE EDUCATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +141%
- PIPIONEER INSTITUTE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- WIWALKER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +61%
- NHNORTH HAVEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $6k
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK MAINEone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
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…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 68 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Walker School Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Westwood Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTON ACTION PLAN ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds MOTHER BROOK ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Kirby Family Foundation · Strypemonde Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity 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 Gbl Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Delaware Futures Inc — 78% of income from government
- Cancer Care Connection — 48% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Welcome Project Inc — 4% 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.