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Ginn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$380k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$1.0MHealth$443kRecreation & Sports$285kSocial Science$230kPhilanthropy$130kArts & Culture$123kPublic Benefit$105kEnvironment$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $715k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
  • $250k+1 grant · $380k
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$380,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$125,000
HOOVER INSTITUTION$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY$60,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$45,000
JASPER ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION$40,000
TENNIS ASSOCIATION OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC$40,000
BARNES TENNIS CENTER$35,000
THE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION$30,000
PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE$25,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$25,000
UCSF-DEPT OF NEUROLOGY$25,000
FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS$25,000
NEW VILLAGE ARTS THEATRE$25,000
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 (FY24–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MITCHELL THORP FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SHARIA'S CLOSET: $5k → 11%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
NC
SC
DC
AL

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.

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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$749k · 17 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
37

Total granted

$749k
$710k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+32%

Still filing today

71%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • HH
    HILTON HEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    3× · 2019–2024 · $62k · revenue +114%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2021 · $55k · revenue +41%
  • UO
    University of the Pacific
    3× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Hoover Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $125k
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +48%
  • UW
    UCSF Women's Health Center
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

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
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
4
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
7
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
8
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
9
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is Blacquity Sc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsYouth Development Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,693

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.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
47/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AUBURN UNIVERSITY — $380,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYAuburn University — $175,000 · OtherAuburn UniversityThe Hoover Institute — $125,000 · OtherThe Hoover InstituteEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $125,000 · OtherEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONHOOVER INSTITUTION — $100,000 · OtherHOOVER INSTITUTIONUniversity of California — $75,000 · Other+46 more — $779,500 · Other+46 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRU…HILTON HEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $61,500 · EducationHILTON HEAD CHRI…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $55,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT…University of the Pacific — $55,000 · EducationUniversity of th…Davidson College — $30,000 · EducationDavidson CollegeThe Trustees of Princeton University — $25,000 · EducationThe Trustees of …PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVE…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Education+5 more — $40,000 · Education+5 moreCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $60,000 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $55,000 · PhilanthropyPacific Research Institute For Public Policy — $50,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education — $25,000 · PhilanthropyPALM SPRINGS PATHFINDERS INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Northeast Alabama — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyLOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS — $40,000 · Arts & CultureA Step Beyond — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCarmel Ideas Foundation — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWireless History Foundation — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentLIVING DESERT THE — $20,000 · EnvironmentHILLSBOROUGH BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION — $7,500 · EnvironmentEisenhower Medical Center — $100,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $20,000 · Human ServicesMitchell Thorp Foundation — $12,500 · Human ServicesBluffton Community Soup Kitchen — $10,000 · Human ServicesMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 — $10,000 · Human ServicesSharias Closet — $5,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT NIGHT NIGHT — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,759,500Education$411,500Philanthropy$215,000Arts & Culture$120,000Environment$112,500Health$110,000Human Services$62,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $61,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTENNIS ASSOCIATION OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND — $40,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS — $40,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetJasper Animal Rescue Mission — $40,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDavidson College — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetA Step Beyond — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAROLINE HOSPICE OF BEAU — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMitchell Thorp Foundation — $12,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC TENNIS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetEVERYDAY MISSION TRIP EVANGELISM ORGANIZATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPALM SPRINGS PATHFINDERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northeast Alabama — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlacquity SC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLONGLEAF BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetBluffton Community Soup Kitchen — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarmel Ideas Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 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.

Community Foundation …The San Diego Foundat…Heritage Classic Foun…The Bessemer Giving F…The Watterson Family …The Ayco Charitable F…Coastal Community Fou…Pga Tour IncSilicon Valley Commun…Sempra FoundationTracy and Greg Johnso…C and a Johnson Famil…
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The San Diego Foundation · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Watterson Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Tracy and Greg Johnson Foundation Inc · C and a Johnson Family 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 Ginn 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Ginn Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ginn Family 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 92 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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