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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.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.7MEducation$166kEnvironment$159kFood & Nutrition$83kHealth$54kRecreation & Sports$49kHousing & Shelter$20kCivil Rights$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$607k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WALKER SCHOOL$12,500
HALE PRESERVATION$10,000
NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE$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
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICES: $1k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $1k → 11%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
DE
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$567k · 38 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
24

Total granted

$567k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+39%

Still filing today

76%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +199%
  • HE
    HALE EDUCATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +79%
  • PI
    PIONEER INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • WI
    WALKER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +61%
  • NH
    NORTH HAVEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK MAINE
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
6
Wheaton College

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…

Education
7
World Resources Institute

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…

International
8
United States Naval Institute

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.

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9
Ceres Inc

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…

Environment
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 68 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
40/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $827,932 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCMaine Community Foundation Inc: $827,932 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropySIERRA CLUB: $124,000 · OtherSIERRA CLUBTHE WALKER SCHOOL: $47,500 · OtherTHE WALKER SCHOOLNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $18,500 · OtherNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+39 more: $154,250 · Other+39 morePIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 · EducationThe Walker School Inc: $25,000 · EducationREACH PREP INC: $13,000 · EducationWALKER INC: $10,000 · EducationDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC: $7,000 · EducationDELAWARE FUTURES INC: $5,100 · EducationSTONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL: $4,500 · Education+5 more: $9,250 · EducationRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION: $60,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 · InternationalHALE EDUCATION INC: $53,000 · Recreation & SportsINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Telling Room: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCANCER CARE CONNECTION: $14,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,657,864Other$359,250Education$108,850International$74,500Recreation & Sports$58,500Youth Development$18,000Health$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $827,932 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $124,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION: $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $53,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Walker School Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CARE CONNECTION: $14,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetREACH PREP INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWestwood Land Trust Inc: $10,750 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: $10,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWALKER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $8,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $6,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WELCOME PROJECT INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE FUTURES INC: $5,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Telling Room: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER BROOK ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWatermans Community Center: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIsland Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND WIND FUND INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNeighbors for Clean Air: $1,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST HOPE K9 RESCUE LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeworthy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Boston Foundation IncMaine Community Found…Onion FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…Middlecott FoundationFisher Charitable Fou…Cummings Foundation G…Combined Jewish Phila…Bny Mellon Charitable…The Kirby Family Foun…Strypemonde FoundationBushrod H Campbell & …
Boston Foundation IncMA24.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home