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Gogo 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.

$503k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$821kEducation$609kCommunity Improvement$363kHealth$287kCivil Rights$187kPhilanthropy$58kHuman Services$43kArts & Culture$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $166k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
$3,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPTIMA FOUNDATION$150,000
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE$55,000
UNLEASH PROSPERITY$55,000
THE BOARD OF HARVARD & MIT$40,000
JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE$20,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$20,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS$15,000
TURNING POINT USA$11,000
ADAPT$10,000
JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC$10,000
LIBERTAS NETWORK$10,000
WEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION$10,000
CAMPBELL HALL$10,000
FOUNTAIN HOUSE$10,000
TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC$7,500
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 (FY19–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $3k → 14%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 53 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

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
14

Total granted

$2.2M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+59%

Still filing today

87%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UP
    UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $357k · revenue +222%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $305k · revenue +8%
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +222%

Funded once

  • B
    BABY2BABYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +72%
  • LS
    Leopold Schepp Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +37%
  • EI
    EdChoice Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -18%

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
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
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
9
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
10
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
11
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …Youth Development CentersLocal History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Addiction Recovery ServicesCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%49%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,499

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

65 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. 65 of the 77 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
50/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC — $357,000 · Public BenefitUNLEASH PROSPERITY INCAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $305,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE C…+6 more — $58,000 · Public Benefit+6 moreFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC — $228,500 · OtherFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INCTURNING POINT USA INC — $101,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $83,500 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBL…THE BOARD OF HARVARD & MIT — $80,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF HARVARD & MITTHE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · OtherTHE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC+40 more — $268,250 · Other+40 moreTHE OPTIMA FOUNDATION DBA EDUCATION FREEDOM FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationTHE OPTIMA FOUNDATION D…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $127,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $115,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUND…AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY — $42,000 · EducationAMERICAN TRANSPARENCYST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $30,000 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOLChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $30,000 · EducationChildren of Fallen Patr…TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION — $27,000 · Education+4 more — $23,500 · EducationThe Broad Institute Inc — $100,000 · HealthThe Broad In…FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $60,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOU…JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $59,000 · HealthJUPITER ISLA…TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC — $43,500 · HealthTISCH MULTIP…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 · Health+1 more — $8,500 · HealthCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE — $87,500 · Civil RightsTRUE THE VOTE INC — $15,000 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $10,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $9,000 · Civil RightsHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropyLeopold Schepp Foundation — $6,500 · PhilanthropyCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $35,000 · Science & Tech
Public Benefit$720,000Other$821,250Education$544,500Health$285,000Civil Rights$121,500Philanthropy$51,500Science & Tech$35,000

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 budgetUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC — $357,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $305,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC — $228,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE OPTIMA FOUNDATION DBA EDUCATION FREEDOM FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $127,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $101,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE — $87,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC — $83,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $59,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC — $43,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY — $42,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION — $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $26,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEA PARTY PATRIOTS FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBABY2BABY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE THE VOTE INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RUNYON CANYON FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetHOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $13,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLittle Compton Community Center Corporation — $12,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLibertas Network — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITE THE WORLD WITH AFRICA FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWALTHER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLeopold Schepp Foundation — $6,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CINCINNATI CHARITABLE TRUST — $5,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% 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.

Donors Trust IncBradley Impact Fund I…The Lynde and Harry B…The Dunn FoundationThomas W Smith Founda…The Bessemer Giving F…State Policy NetworkGarvey Kansas Foundat…Bailey Family Foundat…The Seminar Network I…The Chase Foundation …The Searle Freedom Tr…
Donors Trust IncVA34.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Dunn Foundation · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · State Policy Network · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · The Seminar Network Inc · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · The Searle Freedom Trust

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 Gogo 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 · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
  • Trinity College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report 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

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.

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 77 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

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