How much did Gofundmeorg grant in FY2025?

Gofundmeorg reported 75 itemized grants totaling $7,203,123, out of $20,550,244 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Gofundmeorg

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· Public charity

Gofundmeorg

The organization began active operations in late august 2017 in the advent of hurricane harvey.

$21M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.5M

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$25MInternational$23MFood & Nutrition$19MHuman Services$14MYouth Development$5.7MArts & Culture$4.1MPhilanthropy$3.6MCivil Rights$3.4MOther$0

02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 75 grants below total $7,203,123 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $20,550,244 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,347,121 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $67k
$10k–50k43 grants · $1.0M
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
$250k+7 grants · $4.8M

$25,973

Median grant

States reached

$9.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE CHANGE REACTION	$1,500,000
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$900,000
INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY	$670,000
211 LA	$600,000
COMITE CIVICO DEL VALLE INC	$512,140
PATCHWORK INDY INC	$332,500
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE	$289,999
PROJECT M25 INC - DBA WELCOMENST	$189,500
BRAWNER EMPLOYEES FAMILY SURVIVAL FUND CORP	$162,554
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE	$116,500
WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL (START INC)	$110,000
STEP UP	$100,000
UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA	$100,000
FLINTRIDGE CENTER	$97,950
HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY	$82,250

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 (FY19–25, $13.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 29% of Gofundmeorg’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Gofundmeorglessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 48% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$58M · 122 repeat orgs$34M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

122 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 101 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

122

529

Total granted

$58M

$28M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+8%

Still filing today

92%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationHealthOther

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

Feeding America
4× · 2019–2022 · $8.4M · revenue +77%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
6× · 2019–2025 · $8.3M · revenue ×11
BB
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION
2× · 2022–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +34% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

TU
TIME'S UP FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $2.6M
M
MILES4MIGRANTS
one grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue -76%
ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES
one grant, 2023 · $555k · revenue -37%

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.

Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal

Asian American Advocacy Alliance

Community Improvement

Aapi Equity Alliance

Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…

Human Services

Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy

Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California

Ajsocal is a social justice organization that protects and strengthens the rights and dignity of asian american and pacific islander (aapi) communities, especially those that are most disadvantaged.

Crime & Legal

Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit

Asian Inc

The core mission of ASIAN, Inc. is the empowerment of the Asian American Community to achieve social equality by reducing dependency to create and expand access to opportunities in the areas of business development, housing and education.…

Community Improvement

Ayuda Inc

Ayuda's mission is to advocate for low-income immigrants through direct legal, social and language services, training and outreach in washington, d.c., maryland, and virginia. we envision a community where all immigrants succeed and thrive…

Human Services

Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services

California Immigrant Policy Center

The california immigrant policy center upholds the humanity of immigrant communities in california by transforming systems to achieve racial, social, and economic justice.

Civil Rights

Asian Pacific Institute On Gender-Based Violence

Our mission is to disrupt gender-based violence, which causes physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and economic harm within AAPI communities throughout the U.S. and its territories.

Arts & Culture

Vietnamese American Roundtable

The Vietnamese American Roundtable (VAR) envisions a strong and unified Vietnamese American community that works towards improving our quality of life. To this end, VAR focuses our mission to organize, advocate, and educate our community.…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity and the most unlike its peers is Philozoia. 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.

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 22 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%10/714

the rest of the field

13%

240,386/1,818,851

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.

05the grantee network

654 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. 654 of the 716 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

128

Early backer (in before they grew)

635/654

Grantees still filing

364/654

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$20,685,689Public Safety & Disaster$19,640,380International$14,094,893Other$21,813,756Human Services$11,849,937Food & Nutrition$8,687,731Education$1,881,606

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc IncDC87.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development · The Asian American Foundation · Asian Pacific Fund · Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum · Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California · Wallace H Coulter Foundation · Islamic Relief USA · Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · Wallace H Coulter Trust · Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote · Asian Law Caucus

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 Gofundmeorg 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely on government for over half their income

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 Gofundmeorg?

Find your warmest path to Gofundmeorg 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines