How much does Gogo Foundation give?

Gogo Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $555,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 51 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Gogo Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (32%), Education (24%), Community Improvement (14%).

Who are Gogo Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Legislative Exchange Council ($360k), Unleash Prosperity Inc ($357k), Freedomworks Foundation Inc ($229k).

Does Gogo Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gogo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Gogo Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc.

Where is Gogo Foundation based?

Gogo Foundation is based in FL.

Gogo Foundation

Gogo Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Gogo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$555k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $63k
$10k–50k12 grants · $183k
$50k–250k3 grants · $310k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EDUCATION FREEDOM FOUNDATION	$200,000
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE	$55,000
UNLEASH PROSPERITY	$55,000
THE BOARD OF HARVARD & MIT	$40,000
TURNING POINT USA	$25,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$15,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS	$15,000
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION	$15,000
CAMPBELL HALL	$12,500
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY	$10,000
JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC	$10,000
FOUNTAIN HOUSE	$10,000
ADAPT	$10,000
STATE POLICY NETWORK	$10,000
YOUNG STORYTELLERS FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.5M · 55 repeat orgs$508k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+47%

Still filing today

87%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL
4× · 2022–2025 · $360k · revenue +8%
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UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $357k · revenue +222%
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TURNING POINT USA INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $126k · revenue +304%

Funded once

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THE OPTIMA FOUNDATION DBA EDUCATION FREEDOM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
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BABY2BABYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +72%
WC
WEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%

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.

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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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

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

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

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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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

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

The Roosevelt Institute

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

Education

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

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

United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 83 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/68

Grantees still filing

50/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,201,750Public Benefit$778,000Education$590,000Health$316,500Civil Rights$131,500Philanthropy$58,500Arts & Culture$57,500

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

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.

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

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

2024

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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

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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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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home