· Private foundation
Gifford Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ALI FORNEY CENTER | $1,000 |
| OMEGA HORSE RESCUE & REHABILITATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| MEND HUNGER RELIEF NETWORK | $1,000 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA | $1,000 |
| SEGUE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| QUAHOG BAY CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| AMA ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| FILM STREAMS | $885 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +6%
- FWFALLINGWATER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $2k
- BBBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +53%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FONTENELLE FOREST ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- 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 AMA Animal Rescue Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF THE ORANGES ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN DOE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gifford Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gifford Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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