How much did GIFFORDS grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of GIFFORDS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

firearmownerssmart techtech challengessafety technologieslatinoinnovators

2020

police executiveshealth

2021

—

2022

political activity

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k6 grants · $110k
$50k–250k2 grants · $200k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

ARIZONA DEMOCRATIC PARTY$100,000
SENATE MAJORITY PAC$100,000
UNRIG OUR ECONOMY$40,000
EDUCATION REFORM NOW ADVOCACY$20,000
END GUN VIOLENCE MICHIGAN ACTION$20,000
TIDES CENTER$10,000
HISPANIC FEDERATION$10,000
TEXAS GUN SENSE$10,000

02The need

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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$217k · 5 repeat orgs$767k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$217k

$477k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+163%

+188%

Still filing today

80%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCrime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

LV
LATINO VICTORY PROJECT
2× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +38%
GV
GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION COMMITTEE
2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +91%
C
CEASEFIREPA
2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +163%

Funded once

ST
SMART TECH CHALLENGES FDTN
one grant, 2019 · $156k · revenue +882%
SS
SAFE SCHOOLS SAFE COMMUNITY OREGON
one grant, 2022 · $105k
TG
THE GOOD LAND COMMITTEE
one grant, 2020 · $100k

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.

Violence Policy Center

Educational, research activity on firearms violence.

Crime & Legal

Latino Political Network

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BlackPush Inc

Our organization combats gun violence works to turn out the vote pushes for laws to help previously incarcerated and issues related to social injustice.

Religion

Phillysafe

Gun violence reduction in philadelphia

Crime & Legal

Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal

Center for Gun Rights and Responsibility

Gun safety education

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Global Action On Gun Violence Inc

Global Action on Gun Violence is the only organization working with countries and people around the world to reduce the global harm from guns by using litigation and human rights strategies to reform dangerous gun industry practices.

Civil Rights

Gun Violence Intervention

The gvicc identifies, coordinates and strengthens gun violence intervention programs and outcomes in philadelphia by bridging efforts spanning city government, community-based organizations, local health systems, and civic and…

Public Safety & Disaster

Protect Minnesota

Protect Minnesota promotes a culture of health and safety for all Minnesotans by preventing gun violence through research education advocacy and community investment. We emphasize prevention using a public health model and we seek to build…

Education

Unite Nationwide for Cops Under Fire

Crime & Legal

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence seeks to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement, and effective policy advocacy.

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Latino Civic Alliance

The Latino Civic Alliance LCA is committed to advancing equity justice and opportunity for Latino and underserved communities through advocacy education public policy engagement and grassroots community involvement. LCA empowers…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gun Violence Prevention Action Committee and the most unlike its peers is The Terrell Bosley Anti-Violence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/15

Grantees still filing

12/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$766,000Crime & Legal$111,000Civil Rights$61,500Education$20,000Health$15,000Human Services$10,000

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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund · Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc · New Venture 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 organisation GIFFORDS 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE TERRELL BOSLEY ANTI-VIOLENCE ASSOC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 274657750 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE TERRELL BOSLEY ANTI-VIOLENCE ASSOC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Giffords?

Find your warmest path to Giffords through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GIFFORDS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Giffords?

More from the funding graph

GIFFORDS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Giffords?

More from the funding graph