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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
TENNIS ASSOCIATION OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC$40,000
JASPER ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION$40,000
BARNES TENNIS CENTER$35,000
THE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION$30,000
UCSF-DEPT OF NEUROLOGY$25,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$25,000
NEW VILLAGE ARTS THEATRE$25,000
PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE$25,000
FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
NC
SC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 33 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
40

Total granted

$2.6M
$808k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+22%

Still filing today

73%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $422k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    2× · 2021–2022 · $375k · revenue +48%
  • UO
    University of the Pacific
    4× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +26%
  • FS
    FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS
    4× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Hoover Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $125k
  • TS
    THE SEMINAR NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +170%
  • UW
    UCSF Women's Health Center
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
55/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $755,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONThe Hoover Institute: $125,000 · OtherThe Hoover InstituteHOOVER INSTITUTION: $100,000 · OtherUniversity of California: $90,000 · OtherNew Village Arts Theatre: $80,000 · OtherFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS: $80,000 · Other+46 more: $927,000 · Other+46 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES …THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE SEMINAR NETWORK IN…University of the Pacific: $80,000 · EducationUniversity of the Paci…HILTON HEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $66,500 · EducationHILTON HEAD CHRISTIAN …UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON F…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVE…TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationTECHNICAL COLLEGE OF T…PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $35,000 · EducationDavidson College: $30,000 · Education+7 more: $105,000 · Education+7 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $375,000 · HealthEisenhower…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $120,000 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Northeast Alabama: $55,000 · PhilanthropyPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education: $25,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentLIVING DESERT THE: $20,000 · EnvironmentHILLSBOROUGH BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION: $15,500 · EnvironmentA Step Beyond: $55,000 · Arts & CultureLOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCarmel Ideas Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22: $35,000 · Human ServicesMitchell Thorp Foundation: $30,000 · Human ServicesBluffton Community Soup Kitchen: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $20,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT NIGHT NIGHT: $5,000 · Human ServicesSharias Closet: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$2,307,000Education$861,500Health$385,000Philanthropy$330,000Environment$180,500Arts & Culture$155,000Human Services$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $120,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS: $80,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHILTON HEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $66,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northeast Alabama: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Step Beyond: $55,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTECHNICAL COLLEGE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS: $50,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJasper Animal Rescue Mission: $40,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTENNIS ASSOCIATION OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND: $40,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMitchell Thorp Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBluffton Community Soup Kitchen: $30,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetDavidson College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC BLUFFTON FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMed4OurWorld Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 22% 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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAROLINE HOSPICE OF BEAU: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarmel Ideas Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ginn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ginn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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