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Gff 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$704k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.0MEducation$863kPhilanthropy$269kReligion$228kHuman Services$197kRecreation & Sports$130kCommunity Improvement$107kArts & Culture$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $281k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$21,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSPIRA HEALTH FOUNDATION$704,224
MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$521,000
ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$151,000
VIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION$130,000
B&GCGC$30,000
ROWAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION AT GLOUCESTER COUNTY$30,000
ST JOHN OF GOD COMMUNITY SERVICES$28,000
WHOLESOME RICHES$22,000
ADAM TALIAFERRO FOUNDATION$21,250
KINGSWAY SERVICES$16,000
UNITED WAY OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY$10,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$7,500
GLOUCESTER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT$5,000
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 (FY22–25, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE JERRY SEGAL CLASSIC: $11k → 22%THE JERRY SEGAL CLASSIC: $6k → 22%THE JERRY SEGAL CLASSIC: $5k → 22%THE JERRY SEGAL CLASSIC: $3k → 22%WHOLESOME RICHES: $40k → 8%WHOLESOME RICHES: $22k → 8%WHOLESOME RICHES: $20k → 8%ST JOHN OF GOD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $42k → 8%WHOLESOME RICHES: $11k → 8%ST JOHN OF GOD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $31k → 8%ST JOHN OF GOD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $28k → 8%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 18 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

$4.6M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

72%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IH
    INSPIRA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +96%
  • MR
    MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $967k · revenue +112%
  • SJ
    St John of God Community Services
    3× · 2023–2025 · $101k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • Washington and Lee University
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +15%
  • PE
    POSITIVE EXPOSURE PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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2
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
3
Wilmington University Inc

Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…

Education
4
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
5
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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6
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
7
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…

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8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide educational services, see schedule o.

Education
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virtua Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Positive Exposure Productions Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSPIRA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,779,224 · HealthINSPIRA HEALTH FOUNDATION INCMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $966,500 · HealthMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $198,000 · HealthVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $43,000 · HealthROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $653,500 · EducationROWAN UNIVERSITY FO…UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUIS…Washington and Lee University: $50,000 · EducationWashington and Lee …ROWAN COLLEGE OF SOUTH JERSEY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Education+1 more: $18,500 · EducationINSPIRA FOUNDATION OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY: $237,000 · OtherINSPIRA FOUND…B&GCGC: $227,684 · OtherB&GCGCSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $50,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMP…UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT: $22,877 · Other+7 more: $14,500 · OtherSt John of God Community Services: $101,200 · Human ServicesWHOLESOME RICHES: $93,000 · Human ServicesTHE JERRY SEGAL CLASSIC: $23,000 · Human ServicesGLOUCESTER COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMER: $101,500 · Community ImprovementGARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC: $5,500 · Community ImprovementADAM TALIAFERRO FOUNDATION INC: $79,500 · Recreation & SportsUNITED WAY OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY: $32,000 · Philanthropy
Health$2,986,724Education$802,000Other$552,061Human Services$217,200Community Improvement$107,000Recreation & Sports$79,500Philanthropy$32,000

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 budgetINSPIRA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,779,224 over 4y, 12% of budgetMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $966,500 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $653,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $198,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGLOUCESTER COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMER: $101,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetSt John of God Community Services: $101,200 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWHOLESOME RICHES: $93,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetADAM TALIAFERRO FOUNDATION INC: $79,500 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $50,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKINGSWAY SERVICES INC: $32,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY: $32,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetROWAN COLLEGE OF SOUTH JERSEY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE JERRY SEGAL CLASSIC: $23,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE EXPOSURE PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC: $5,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetNational Children Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $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.

Columbia Bank Foundat…Td Charitable Foundat…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Columbia Bank FoundationNJ15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Gff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Gff Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gff 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 29 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home