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Ggs Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.5MHealth$1.0MEducation$595kHuman Services$200kYouth Development$160kInternational$115kPublic Benefit$100kArts & Culture$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $685k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA DEPT OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY$200,000
HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION$200,000
PROVIDENCE LCM FD (EMERGENCY ROOM)$100,000
KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS$100,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$100,000
ALLIANCE - GENERAL GIFT$100,000
ST JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
UCLA OPERATION MEND$50,000
UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRYVENICE DENTAL CTR$50,000
CITY OF HOPE$50,000
LA REGIONAL FOOD BANK$50,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LA FOUNDATION$50,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$50,000
LA FAMILY HOUSING$50,000
SOUTH BAY FAMILIES CONNECTED$50,000
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 (FY23–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC: $10k → 11%AGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25k → 14%WE ARE BRAVE TOGETHER INC: $10k → 14%FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%WE ARE BRAVE TOGETHER INC: $5k → 14%ICAN CALIFORNIA ABILITIES NETWORK: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
AL
GA
FL
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 38 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -34% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
11

Total granted

$1.7M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-34%

Still filing today

55%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +50%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +9%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF NY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS (PALESTINIAN AID)
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
2
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
7
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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8
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
9
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

—
10
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bloomfield Family Foundation. 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

35 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. 35 of the 69 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
21/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherHIRSHBERG FOUNDATIONUCLA DEPT OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY: $200,000 · OtherUCLA DEPT OF NEURO-ONCOLOGYPROVIDENCE LCM FD (EMERGENCY ROOM): $100,000 · OtherALLIANCE - GENERAL GIFT: $100,000 · OtherALLIANCE - CHOICE FUND: $100,000 · OtherUCLA OPERATION MEND: $100,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $85,000 · Other+36 more: $1,065,000 · Other+36 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUN…KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 · EducationKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC …South Bay Families Connected: $75,000 · EducationSouth Bay Families…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $50,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS I…Teach for America Inc: $50,000 · EducationTeach for America …ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $50,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL CHAR…CAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY: $20,000 · EducationPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $90,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthPARKINSON'…LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · HealthLUNDQUIST …American Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · HealthAmerican H…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $30,000 · Human ServicesWe Are Brave Together: $15,000 · Human ServicesCELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesICAN CALIFORNIA ABILITIES NETWORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $25,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ST LAWRENCE-WATTS YOUTH CENTER: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $35,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,950,000Education$510,000Health$280,000Human Services$175,000Arts & Culture$75,000International$75,000Youth Development$75,000

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 budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Bay Families Connected: $75,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST LAWRENCE-WATTS YOUTH CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPortal Schools: $35,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWe Are Brave Together: $15,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetWOMEN IN TRAINING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAVING GRACIE EQUINE HEALING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHarbor Community Development Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAGAPE HOUSE OF PRESCOTT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetICAN CALIFORNIA ABILITIES NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds South Bay Families Connected ↗
  • Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ST LAWRENCE-WATTS YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Portal Schools ↗
  • Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
  • Who funds MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE ↗

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.

Bloomfield Family Fou…Skechers FoundationPipkin Charitable Fou…California Community …Sempra FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
Bloomfield Family FoundationCA30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bloomfield Family Foundation · Skechers Foundation · Pipkin Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Ggs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ggs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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