Idaho · Private foundation
George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $340k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 12 | $335k | 92% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $106k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $500k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $123k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley City Park District | $420,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Valley City State University Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Bridges Arts Council | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheyenne Valley Friends of Animals | $5,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Education Foundation for the Valley City Public Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand Forks Foundation for Education Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kindred Youth Baseball | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Village Family Service Center | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley City Park District | $420,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Valley City State University Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Bridges Arts Council | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheyenne Valley Friends of Animals | $5,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Education Foundation for the Valley City Public Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand Forks Foundation for Education Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kindred Youth Baseball | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Village Family Service Center | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Barnes County Historical Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Dakota Winter Show Foundation | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Open Door Center | $50 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($539k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Otto Bremer Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation
- How much does George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation give?
- George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $339,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (77%), Education (11%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Valley City Park District ($420k), Valley City State University Foundation ($100k), Bridges Arts Council ($15k).
- Does George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, Sanford Group Return, Bnsf Railway Foundation.
- Where is George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation based?
- George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation is based in ID.
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