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Gochnauer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$313k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$404kInternational$390kHuman Services$286kHealth$211kArts & Culture$150kCivil Rights$144kCrime & Legal$120kHousing & Shelter$76kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $231k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHICAGO HOUSE$15,000
FAMILY EQUALITIES COUNCIL$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
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOLD FOUNDATION: $515 → 9%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $1k → 14%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $3k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $2k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $1k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $1k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $1k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $1k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $1k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $54k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $40k → 10%LITTLE GIRAFFE FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $37k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $19k → 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $3k → 10%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $7k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 14%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

WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 53 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
60

Total granted

$1.9M
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+8%

Still filing today

66%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TW
    THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT
    7× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +10%
  • JS
    JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $98k · revenue +9%
  • UP
    UNSILENCED PROJECT INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -59%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
    one grant, 2020 · $22k
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
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
2
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
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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5
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
Dominican University of California

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 123 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
47/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY: $95,050 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAYIndividual grant recipient: $92,808 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF HOPE: $75,200 · OtherCITY OF HOPEEQUALITY ILLINOIS EDUCATION PROJECT: $68,360 · OtherEQUALITY ILLINOIS EDUCATION PROJECTFAMILY EQUALITIES COUNCIL: $55,000 · OtherFAMILY EQUALITIES COUNCILIndividual grant recipient: $47,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $98,440 · OtherJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN J…UNSILENCED PROJECT INC: $90,000 · OtherUNSILENCED PROJECT INC+65 more: $241,964 · Other+65 moreOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $235,767 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTERNAT…EBENEZER FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · InternationalEBENEZER FOUNDATION …United States Association for UNHCR: $45,000 · InternationalUnited States Associ…SUDARA FREEDOM FUND: $20,000 · InternationalFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $18,000 · International+5 more: $5,500 · InternationalLAURA'S HOUSE: $152,936 · Human ServicesLAURA'S HOU…SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILI…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO …Serving People In Need Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesDECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY: $9,000 · Human Services+4 more: $5,015 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC: $87,050 · EducationUNIVERSITY…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $78,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…FAMILY EQUALITY: $20,500 · EducationFAMILY EQU…Francis W Parker School: $12,900 · EducationFrancis W …+4 more: $5,700 · EducationCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $61,000 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $45,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $32,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $15,000 · Health+8 more: $6,100 · HealthTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $107,300 · Arts & CultureART WITH IMPACT: $15,000 · Arts & CultureORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $8,000 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL: $5,050 · Arts & CultureA Step Beyond: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,700 · Arts & CultureONEGOAL: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $43,600 · Youth Development
Other$908,822International$389,267Human Services$208,451Education$204,150Health$159,600Arts & Culture$144,050Youth Development$118,600

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 budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $235,767 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $152,936 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $107,300 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $98,440 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNSILENCED PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC: $87,050 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $78,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetONEGOAL: $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEBENEZER FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $61,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $43,600 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $20,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUDARA FREEDOM FUND: $20,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRYAN BANKS ACADEMY: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART WITH IMPACT: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $12,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetServing People In Need Inc: $10,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Anne School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY: $9,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA DANCE FESTIVAL: $5,050 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetA Step Beyond: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $3,459 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCODENOW INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDESIGNS FOR DIGNITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDaisy May Films: $2,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,648 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Impact Fund: $1,003 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SUDARA FREEDOM FUND ↗
  • Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds RYAN BANKS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds ART WITH IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Serving People In Need Inc ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds St Anne School ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…The Chicago Community…The Hanauer Family Fo…Macgillivray Family F…The William Gillespie…Croul Family Foundati…Baird Foundation IncFarmers & Merchants B…The Ayco Charitable F…California Community …The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
Orange County Community FoundationCA21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gochnauer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gochnauer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Gochnauer Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gochnauer 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 123 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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