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Ggs Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$895k
Granted FY2018
34
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Education$473kYouth Development$360kHuman Services$245kHealth$205kHousing & Shelter$95kArts & Culture$63kRecreation & Sports$60kPhilanthropy$59kOther$0
02FY2018 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $785k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC$50,000
READING PARTNERS$50,000
NEW DOOR VENTURES$45,000
OLD SKOOL CAFE$40,000
826 VALENCIA$40,000
SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE$40,000
SAN FRANCISCO COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$35,000
TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING$35,000
ASPIRANET (EXPERIENCE CORPS BAY AREA)$30,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO$30,000
PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC$30,000
PROJECT AVARY INC$30,000
PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC$30,000
CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT$30,000
BAY AREA SCORES$30,000
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 (FY17–18, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $40k → 22%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $30k → 9%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 10%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $30k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $30k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%PORTOLA FAMILY CONNECTION CENTER INC: $30k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $30k → 10%GIRLVENTURES: $30k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $30k → 10%NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & SERVICES FOUNDATION NCPHS: $25k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $20k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Ggs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Ggs Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$307k · 7 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
24

Total granted

$307k
$698k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+62%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $705k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • RP
    READING PARTNERS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • JF
    JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $95k · revenue +8%
  • TP
    TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING
    2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • LS
    Larkin Street Youth Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +90%
  • LL
    Life Learning Academygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +37%
  • EF
    ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +23%

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
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
4
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
5
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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6
Oakland Kids First

The mission of Oakland Kids First is to increase youth voice, leadership and power to create engaging and equitable public schools where all students learn and lead.

Youth Development
7
Community Youth Center of San Francisco

Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…

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8
Berkeley Community Scholars Dba Berkeley Community Fund

Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.

Philanthropy
9
City Surf Project

To ensure equitable access to the coastline and improve the health and well-being of Bay Area youth, through surf instruction. We use surfing as a vehicle to foster respect for nature, healthy living, personal growth, diversity, equity and…

Recreation & Sports
10
The Kids Co-op Inc Dba Mariposa Kids

Support and inspire children's natural curiosity and independence through free play during their out-of-school time.

Education
11
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
12
The California Center for Civic Participation

To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers and the most unlike its peers is Game Theory Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr20%37%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr20%44%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
11%
940/8,787

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Larkin Street Youth Services — $50,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth ServicesTIDES CENTER — $45,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $40,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVEPARENT SERVICES PROJECT — $30,000 · Human ServicesPARENT SERVICES PROJECTTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECTHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS I…CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO — $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF TH…GIRLVENTURES — $30,000 · Human ServicesGIRLVENTURESFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERSAT THE CROSSROADS — $30,000 · Human ServicesAT THE CROSSROADSFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $25,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTHSEQUOIA LIVING INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSEQUOIA LIVING INCRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesREADING PARTNERS — $100,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERSJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $95,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHI…TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING — $60,000 · EducationTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARL…Life Learning Academy — $45,000 · EducationLife Learning Academy826 Valencia — $40,000 · Education826 ValenciaSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $25,000 · EducationSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLSMISSION GRADUATES — $35,000 · OtherMISSION GRADUATESASPIRANET (EXPERIENCE CORPS BAY AREA) — $30,000 · OtherASPIRANET (EXPERIENCE CORPS BAY AR…Sunset District Community Development dba Sunset Youth Services — $30,000 · OtherSunset District Community Developm…COMMUNITY INITIATIVES (PEER RESOURCES) — $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES (PEER RESOUR…GENESYS WORKS — $30,000 · OtherGENESYS WORKSKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER INTERNATIONAL (SAN FRANCISCO KIDPOWER FULLPOWE — $30,000 · OtherKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER INTER…Ever Forward — $25,000 · OtherGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco — $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY — $25,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $20,000 · OtherFoodwise Community — $20,000 · OtherTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $30,000 · OtherTHE EXPLORATORIUMIntersection for the Arts — $25,000 · OtherNEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC — $45,000 · OtherNEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE …San Francisco CASA — $35,000 · OtherSan Francisco CASABayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT — $35,000 · OtherBayview-Hunters Point Center for A…CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $20,000 · Other+6 more — $42,100 · Other+6 moreOld Skool Cafe — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentOld Skool …Bridge the Gap College Prep — $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentBridge the…ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentENTERPRISE…PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEALT…North Marin Community Services — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentNorth Mari…JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsBAY AREA SCORES — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsHENRY OHLHOFF HOUSE — $30,000 · HealthAccess Institute for Psychological Services — $25,000 · HealthSide By Side — $20,000 · HealthCenters for Equity and Success Inc — $30,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $30,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$435,000Education$365,000Other$532,100Youth Development$168,000Recreation & Sports$120,000Health$75,000Crime & Legal$60,000

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 budgetREADING PARTNERS — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $95,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING — $60,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget826 Valencia — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOld Skool Cafe — $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep — $38,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSan Francisco CASA — $35,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES — $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT — $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPARENT SERVICES PROJECT — $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSunset District Community Development dba Sunset Youth Services — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHENRY OHLHOFF HOUSE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCenters for Equity and Success Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBAY AREA SCORES — $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLVENTURES — $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Marin Community Services — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIntersection for the Arts — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAccess Institute for Psychological Services — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSEQUOIA LIVING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSide By Side — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFoodwise Community — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SUICIDE PREVENTION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGAME THEORY ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc — $7,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDID — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Bothin FoundationBella Vista FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…The Morris Stulsaft F…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…McNabb FoundationMarin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…The Stanley S Langend…The Henry Mayo Newhal…Quest Foundation
Bothin FoundationCA52.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bothin Foundation · Bella Vista Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation · Quest 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 Ggs Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 Ggs Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ggs 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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