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Gibson Family Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE CHARITY | $19,000 |
| PROSPERORG | $2,542 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| CURETIVITY | $2,000 |
| BOCA RATON GOLF CHARITIES | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- PPROSPER2× · 2017–2018 · $102k
- TPTHE POTTER'S HOUSE2× · 2017–2018 · $7k
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY2× · 2017–2018 · $7k
Funded once
- TBTRENTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BABLAIR ACADEMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -13%
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.
The new jersey state golf association caddie scholarship foundation, inc. (the "foundation") was formed to provide college financial aid to caddies of member clubs of the new jersey state golf association, inc., which also administers the…
Preservation of significant garden clubs and to provide financial support for college students through scholarships.
To provide scholarships to qualified children of new jersey state troopers.
To enhance rowan college of south jersey's tradition of academic excellence by providing student scholarships for those with financial need.
To fund programs that support the overall mission of the college of new jersey.
Plattsburgh college foundation, inc. was established in 1963 to receive and manage substantially all private gifts to the state university of new york college at plattsburgh. a significant amount of funds raised from private contributions…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To support research that has and will continue to advance treatments and potential cures for cancer.
The new jersey state golf association, inc. ("the association") is a non-profit organization of public and private clubs that was formed for the purpose of preserving and promoting the game of golf throughout the state of new jersey.the…
To raise awareness and funds for cystic fibrosis efforts as well as local sports organizations in memory of robert scholl.
Operate an athletic conference to administer the intercollegiate athletic programs of the conference members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beyond the Walls Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ridge Sports Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE WALLS INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds SKWC A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation ↗
- Who funds The Marty Lyons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROSPERORG ↗
- Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD PLAYERS & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGE SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Gibson Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% 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.
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