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Gfcf Nfp at a glance

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Gfcf Nfp

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.

$242k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$240kEducation$196kFood & Nutrition$138kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kInternational$66kHealth$1kArts & Culture$1kPhilanthropy$1k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$150,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$30,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO$15,000
NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR$15,000
DE LASALLE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
THE JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND$1,000
LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS$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 (FY20–25, $123k) 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%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $15k → 14%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $15k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $15k → 14%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $15k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $15k → 14%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $5k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $15k → 14%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $5k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $13k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $10k → 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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$550k · 7 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$550k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+20%

Still filing today

57%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +17%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +38%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    4× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • GIVEDIRECTLY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -32%
  • SN
    SENIOR NUTRITION SERVICES REG IV INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +20%
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
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
4
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
5
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Accelerate improvements in global health and well-being through food and nutrition.

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6
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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10
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
11
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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12
Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Givedirectly Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $172,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYDE LA SALLE COLLEGIATE: $44,500 · OtherDE LA SALLE COLLEGIATECATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $17,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC+2 more: $6,500 · OtherUniversity of Chicago: $150,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $132,500 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $82,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Re…Neighbor by Neighbor: $40,000 · Human ServicesNeighbor by NeighborGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $60,000 · InternationalUNITED STA…DIRECT RELIEF: $5,000 · InternationalDIRECT REL…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalTHE JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 · Health
Other$241,000Education$150,000Food & Nutrition$132,500Human Services$132,500International$66,000Philanthropy$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000Health$1,000

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 budgetUniversity of Chicago: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $132,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $82,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNeighbor by Neighbor: $40,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR NUTRITION SERVICES REG IV INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAROGYA INC DBA AROGYA WORLD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gfcf Nfp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gfcf Nfp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 16 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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