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Gochnauer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $231k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNSILENCED PROJECT INC | $40,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY' | $30,000 |
| VOCEL | $22,500 |
| THE SHEA CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,200 |
| FAMILY EQUALITIES COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO HOUSE | $15,000 |
| UCI FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| EBENEZER FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| ONEGOAL | $10,000 |
| ORANGE WAY UNITED WAY | $9,036 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $8,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $7,500 |
| REFUGIO 343 | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- TWTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT7× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +10%
- JSJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC6× · 2019–2024 · $98k · revenue +9%
- UPUNSILENCED PROJECT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +57%
Funded once
United States Association for UNHCRone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -62%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $45k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2020 · $22k
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Bold 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 123 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 OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds UNSILENCED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds EBENEZER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds SUDARA FREEDOM FUND ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN BANKS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ART WITH IMPACT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Serving People In Need 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: Orange County Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Hanauer Family Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Gochnauer 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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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