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Gee 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 $10k34 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Barstow Community College | $10,000 |
| California Polytechnic State Univer | $7,500 |
| California St University San Bernar | $7,500 |
| University of California Irvine | $7,500 |
| University of Southern California | $6,500 |
| Utah Tech University | $5,000 |
| Asian Americans Pacific Islanders i | $2,550 |
| Smith Center for the Performing Art | $2,500 |
| UCLA Foundation | $2,500 |
| California State University Montere | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Making Music Matter Foundation | $2,000 |
| Down to Dissect | $2,000 |
| New Hope Village | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 14 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- BCBarstow College Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +604%
- TSThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts8× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +12%
- MMMAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +195%
Funded once
- CMCarnegie Mellon Universityone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +25%
- GCGrand Canyon Universityone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +22%
- CSCalifornia State University Long Beone grant, 2022 · $8k
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
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The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Barstow Humane Society. 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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 155 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 Barstow College Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATORY AT PINECREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Desert Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Barstow Police Activities League ↗
- Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY 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: Orange County Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Ahmanson Foundation · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Nevada Humanities Inc · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Pasadena Community Foundation
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 Gee 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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