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Gft Associates

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Environment$338kHuman Services$231kReligion$123kPhilanthropy$62kYouth Development$30kHealth$15kArts & Culture$4kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$99k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AVANCE AUSTIN$30,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GUNNISON VALLEY$24,000
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,500
UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$15,500
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$12,500
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$10,000
LILITH FUND$10,000
CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$5,000
PEOPLES COMMUNITY CLINIC$2,000
LIFEWORKS$2,000
CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN THEATER$1,000
MAYFIELD PARK COMMUNITY PROJECT$700
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
SAFEPLACE$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAFEPLACE: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$621k · 13 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$621k
$19k

Still filing today

62%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NN
    NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND
    7× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +103%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +119%
  • CB
    CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • WP
    WESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • CB
    CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN THEATER
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…

Health
2
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

3
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
4
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
5
Planned Parenthood South Texas

The purpose of Planned Parenthood South Texas ("the Organization") is to provide family planning and sexual healthcare services to both adults and teenagers, with particular emphasis on serving low-income and medically underserved…

Health
6
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…

Environment
7
Planned Parenthood of Greater Tx Surgical Health Services Inc

Planned parenthood of greater texas surgical health services was established and maintains operations to support and provide clinical health services to its patients in texas, as permitted by law in the organizations clinical settings.

Health
8
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast

To improve our communities' sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.

Health
9
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
10
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas creates healthier communities by providing primary and reproductive healthcare services, delivering science-based education programs, and serving as a strong advocate for reproductive justice in Texas.…

Health
11
Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment
12
San Isabel Land Protection Trust

The principal mission of the land trust is to work with landowners to protect agricultural and forest lands, water resources, wildlife habitat and scenic open spaces, and to serve our community by facilitating parks and trail in custer,…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AVANCE AUSTIN — $227,600 · OtherAVANCE AUSTINUNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $62,000 · OtherUNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $42,500 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — $30,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSUNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $15,500 · Other+5 more — $9,100 · OtherNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $120,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUND…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $70,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST — $35,000 · EnvironmentCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUSTDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $11,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY — $102,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF…AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDA…PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $12,800 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $2,500 · HealthCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN THEATRE INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS — $1,500 · Human Services
Other$386,700Environment$236,000Philanthropy$164,000Health$15,300Arts & Culture$3,000Human Services$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $120,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY — $102,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST — $35,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $12,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN THEATRE INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $2,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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 NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
  • Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN THEATRE INC
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD
  • Who funds FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× 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

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 Gft Associates 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gft Associates?

    Find your warmest path to Gft Associates 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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