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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.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
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.

Education$344kArts & Culture$57kAnimals$21kEnvironment$16kHuman Services$13kPhilanthropy$13kScience & Tech$11kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Barstow Community College$10,000
California St University San Bernar$7,500
University of California Irvine$7,500
California Polytechnic State Univer$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
Individual grant recipient$2,500
UCLA Foundation$2,500
California State University Montere$2,500
Making Music Matter Foundation$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Down to Dissect$2,000
Barstow Unifed School District$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $250 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $250 → 14%Desert Sanctuary Inc: $1k → 14%New Hope Village: $1k → 14%New Hope Village: $1k → 14%New Hope Village: $1k → 14%New Hope Village: $1k → 14%Desert Sanctuary Inc: $1k → 14%Foundation Assisting Seniors: $250 → 13%Desert Sanctuary Inc: $1k → 14%Foundation Assisting Seniors: $250 → 13%Foundation Assisting Seniors: $100 → 13%Desert Sanctuary Inc: $1k → 14%New Hope Village: $1k → 14%Desert Sanctuary Inc: $1k → 14%New Hope Village: $1k → 14%Desert Sanctuary Inc: $1k → 14%Desert Sanctuary Inc: $500 → 14%New Hope Village: $500 → 14%New Hope Village: $250 → 14%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

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$314k · 75 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
62

Total granted

$314k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+28%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BC
    Barstow College Foundation
    7× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +604%
  • TS
    The Smith Center for the Performing Arts
    8× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +12%
  • MM
    MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +195%

Funded once

  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +25%
  • GC
    Grand Canyon University
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +22%
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
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
3
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
4
Oakland Museum of California

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
6
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
7
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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8
Phoenix Art Museum

Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…

Arts & Culture
9
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Museum of Man Dba Museum of Us

The san diego museum of man, dba museum of us, sits on the unceded ancestral homelands of the kumeyaay nation, in san diegos balboa park. the museum of us extends its respect and gratitude to the kumeyaay peoples who have lived here for…

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

95 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. 95 of the 155 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)
94/95
Grantees still filing
73/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Barstow Community College: $32,500 · OtherBarstow Community CollegeUSC Gould School of Law: $16,000 · OtherUSC Gould School of LawUCLA: $14,000 · OtherUC San Diego: $12,500 · OtherSan Diego State University: $12,500 · OtherUC Davis: $11,000 · OtherCal State San Bernardino: $10,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Other+74 more: $180,197 · Other+74 moreBarstow College Foundation: $26,800 · EducationBarstow College Foundatio…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $22,950 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA…UCLA FOUNDATION: $18,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of …CONSERVATORY AT PINECREST ACADEMY: $7,850 · EducationCONSERVATORY AT PINECREST…Grand Canyon University: $7,500 · EducationGrand Canyon UniversityOTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 · Education+5 more: $4,735 · EducationThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $13,500 · Arts & CultureThe Smith…MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION: $11,500 · Arts & CultureMAKING MU…HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $2,625 · Arts & CultureHENRY E H…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,045 · Arts & CultureVegas City Opera Formerly Sin City Opera: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+24 more: $10,917 · Arts & Culture+24 moreZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $7,600 · AnimalsAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $6,800 · AnimalsGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,550 · AnimalsFriends of the Moonridge Zoo: $1,750 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Animals+8 more: $2,070 · AnimalsNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,990 · PhilanthropyTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $4,000 · PhilanthropyAsian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc: $2,550 · PhilanthropyUPLAND POLICE FOUNDATION CO GAIL HORTON-TRESER: $2,000 · PhilanthropyInland Empire Community Foundation: $1,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyNEW HOPE VILLAGE INC: $6,750 · Human ServicesThe Desert Sanctuary Inc: $6,500 · Human ServicesFoundation Assisting Seniors Inc: $600 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $3,950 · EnvironmentLIVING DESERT THE: $2,000 · EnvironmentSPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION: $1,160 · EnvironmentDESCANSO GARDENS FOUNDATION: $900 · EnvironmentRANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN: $800 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS FOUNDATION: $500 · Environment
Other$298,697Education$118,335Arts & Culture$42,587Animals$21,770Philanthropy$16,540Human Services$14,350Environment$9,310

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBarstow College Foundation: $26,800 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $22,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATORY AT PINECREST ACADEMY: $7,850 over 5y, 19% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $7,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $6,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE VILLAGE INC: $6,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Desert Sanctuary Inc: $6,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,990 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarstow Police Activities League: $5,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarstow Senior Citizens Center: $4,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $3,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBarstow Humane Society: $3,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $2,625 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAsian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc: $2,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMojave Valley United Fund Inc: $2,550 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetVANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAN-SCHNEIDER INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,045 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUPLAND POLICE FOUNDATION CO GAIL HORTON-TRESER: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVegas City Opera Formerly Sin City Opera: $2,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Moonridge Zoo: $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $1,270 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia School-Age Consortium Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBarstow Youth Activity Center: $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION: $1,160 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDESCANSO GARDENS FOUNDATION: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $850 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 OTTAWA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Barstow Police Activities League ↗
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA18.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gee Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gee 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 155 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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