· Private foundation
Gifford Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART | $5,515 |
| WASHINGTON PRINT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| QUAHOG BAY CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| ALI FORNEY CENTER | $1,000 |
| OMEGA HORSE RESCUE & REHABILITATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MEND HUNGER RELIEF NETWORK | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA | $1,000 |
| SEGUE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES | $1,000 |
| AMA ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| FILM STREAMS | $885 |
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 (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- JAJOSLYN ART MUSEUM4× · 2019–2025 · $128k · revenue +174%
- FFFONTENELLE FOREST4× · 2019–2024 · $74k · revenue +8%
- MOMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- CSCITY SPROUTS INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +16%
- BBBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +53%
- FWFALLINGWATER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goats of Anarchy Inc and the most unlike its peers is John Doe Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 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. 32 of the 48 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 JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FONTENELLE FOREST ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Quahog Bay Conservation ↗
- Who funds Sam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA ↗
- Who funds CITY SPROUTS INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMA Animal Rescue Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN DOE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
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: The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lauritzen Foundation · Paul and Oscar Giger Foundation Inc · Union Pacific Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Gifford Foundation 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.
- Keshet Inc — 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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