Connecticut · Private foundation
Gene & Ros Gans Family 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.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $167k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $10k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $9k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $11k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $14k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $11k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $12k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $11k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $10k | 65% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $4,513 | 7 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $4,345 | 7 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $3,750 | 9 | 0% |
| American Institute for Cancer Research | $3,650 | 6 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $2,733 | 3 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $1,050 | 4 | 0% |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $964 | 5 | 0% |
| Georgia Mountain Food Bank Inc | $950 | 2 | 0% |
| Gainesville Independent School Inc Aka Lakeview Academy | $720 | 2 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $700 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation
- How much does Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation give?
- Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $10,171 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (15%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cornell University ($5k), Feeding America ($4k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($4k).
- Does Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
- Where is Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation based?
- Gene & Ros Gans Family Foundation is based in CT.
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