· Private foundation
Gfgw Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k12 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCER UNIVERSITY STETSON-HATCHER S | $10,000 |
| STRATFORD ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CRISIS LINE SAFE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER | $7,500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $4,000 |
| TRINITY CATHEDRAL | $2,000 |
| TALBOT MENTORS INC | $2,000 |
| CASA | $2,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $1,250 |
| NOFA-VT | $1,250 |
| FIRST FRUITS FARM | $1,250 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $1,250 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +133% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TITALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +168%
- SASTRATFORD ACADEMY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +24%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- MSMERCER STETSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2019 · $10k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CENTRAL GAone grant, 2019 · $8k
- CLCRISIS LINE & SAFE HOUSE OF CENTRALone grant, 2019 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Hospice and palliative care program for patients at the end of life. talbot hospice offers hope and compassionate support to those facing life limiting, serious or end of life illnesses.
It is the mission of thruston county food bank to end hunger within our community.
We envision a food system that reflects the diverse communities of our region in leadership, ownership, and priorities. all farmers lowers barriers to enable refugee and immigrant farmers to grow resilient community farms through access to…
Talbot humane co provides a safe and healthy environment for unwanted companion animals in its care; places adoptable companion animals in good homes; protects all animals from cruelty and neglect; and reduces the unwanted companion animal…
The mission of the altamont school is to improve the fabric of society by graduating compassionate, well educated individuals capable of independent thinking and innovative ideas. to this end, the school attracts, nurtures and challenges…
Our mission is to provide educational opportunities to the citizens of our county so they may learn from the past and use that knowledge to build a future which preserves talbot county as one of the best places to live.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
Habitat for humanity of northern virginia brings our community together to build decent, affordable houses - and hope - for people in need. habitat provides a "hand up" to home ownership through sweat equity, donor generosity, volunteer…
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity wicomico adheres to a…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Talbot County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Lake Champlain Waldorf School ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dock Street Foundation · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gfgw Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc — 10% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Waldorf School — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.