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Gps Family 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.

$166k
Granted FY2023
34
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Gps Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Gps Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 32 organizations, $166k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’22
32
’23
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$255kAnimals$212kHousing & Shelter$187kInternational$107kCommunity Improvement$96kHuman Services$82kArts & Culture$72kFood & Nutrition$72kOther$0
02FY2023 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k31 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$4,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTSPACE PROJECT INC$15,000
PATHWAYS MINNEAPOLIS INC$10,000
COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES$10,000
SHARING AND CARING HANDS$8,000
MARLEY'S MUTT'S DOG RESCUE$8,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$8,000
COMMON HOPE$7,500
PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD$6,000
CUPCAKE GIRLS$6,000
THE FOOD GROUP$6,000
DON'T SHOOT PORTLAND$4,500
SISTERS OF THE ROAD$4,000
RAPHEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND$4,000
A LONG WALK HOME$4,000
POTLATCH FUND$4,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–23, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 9%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $3k → 14%CUPCAKE GIRLS: $6k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 9%CUPCAKE GIRLS: $3k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 9%CUPCAKE GIRLS: $2k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 9%CUPCAKE GIRLS: $1k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 9%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%RAPHEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $4k → 12%RAPHEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $4k → 12%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $8k → 11%RAPHEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $2k → 12%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $8k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $8k → 11%RAPHEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $2k → 12%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $8k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $8k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $8k → 11%CARING AND SHARING HANDS: $5k → 11%BRADLEY ANGLE: $4k → 12%OPEN ARMS: $5k → 11%BRADLEY ANGLE: $4k → 12%OPEN ARMS: $5k → 11%OPEN ARMS: $3k → 11%BRADLEY ANGLE: $3k → 12%OPEN ARMS: $3k → 11%OPEN ARMS: $3k → 11%OPEN ARMS: $3k → 11%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

ME
VT
WA
ND
MN
IL
NY
OR
NV
PA
CA
TN
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$961k · 41 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
10

Total granted

$961k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+105%

Still filing today

85%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • AP
    Artspace Projects Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $86k · revenue +40%
  • MZ
    MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $68k · revenue +158%
  • COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • MC
    MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSICgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +37%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +105%
  • AT
    AGAINST THE STREAM NASHVILLE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

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The Conversationalist
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2
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
3
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
4
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
5
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
6
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
7
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
8
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
9
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
10
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
12
Health Poverty Action Usa

Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bradley Angle; the most unlike its peers is Ric OBarrys Dolphin Project. 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

46 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. 46 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATHWAYS MINNEAPOLIS INC: $92,100 · OtherPATHWAYS MINNEAPOLIS INCCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $55,000 · OtherCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIESPURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC: $39,000 · OtherPURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INCSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC: $29,000 · OtherSISTERS OF THE ROAD INCSTANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE: $28,000 · OtherSTANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBETREVOR PROJECT INC: $18,000 · OtherDONT SHOOT PORTLAND: $13,400 · Other+25 more: $117,700 · Other+25 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $240,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC…+1 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $68,000 · AnimalsMINNESOTA ZOO F…Animal Humane Society: $43,000 · AnimalsAnimal Humane S…MARLEY'S MUTTS DOG RESCUE INC: $42,000 · AnimalsMARLEY'S MUTTS …Ric OBarrys Dolphin Project: $15,000 · AnimalsRic OBarrys Dol…Artspace Projects Inc: $85,933 · Arts & CultureArtspace Projec…HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $22,000 · Arts & CultureHENNEPIN THEATR…The Cowles Center: $18,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cowles Cent…A LONG WALK HOME INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureA LONG WALK HOM…CALIFORNIA HERITAGE INDIGENOUS RESEARCH PROJECT: $8,000 · Arts & CulturePOTLATCH FUND: $8,000 · Arts & CultureINDIGENOUS VALUES INITIATIVE INC: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $53,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CA…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $44,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANI…OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $22,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF M…THE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE CUPCAKE GI…RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $11,900 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE …Bradley Angle: $10,000 · Human ServicesBradley AngleJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON HOPE: $67,500 · InternationalFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSISTERS CAMELOT: $19,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GLEANERS: $8,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$392,200Philanthropy$247,000Animals$168,000Arts & Culture$166,933Human Services$162,900International$67,500Food & Nutrition$47,000

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $240,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtspace Projects Inc: $85,933 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $68,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON HOPE: $67,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $53,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $44,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $43,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMARLEY'S MUTTS DOG RESCUE INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC: $39,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSISTERS CAMELOT: $19,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetThe Cowles Center: $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRic OBarrys Dolphin Project: $15,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDONT SHOOT PORTLAND: $13,400 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetA LONG WALK HOME INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $11,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTransition Projects Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBradley Angle: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA HERITAGE INDIGENOUS RESEARCH PROJECT: $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPOTLATCH FUND: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN GLEANERS: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS VALUES INITIATIVE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUITABLE GIVING CIRCLE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND: $5,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOT ONE MORE: $3,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetBROWN HOPE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNO-MO: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $2,000 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.

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.

The Oregon Community …The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustSeeding JusticeAmalgamated Charitabl…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Renaissance Found…The Minneapolis Found…The Blackbaud Giving …The Harold & Arlene S…Careoregon IncThe Autzen Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR19.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Seeding Justice · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Renaissance Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Careoregon Inc · The Autzen Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Center for Intercultural Organizing: 28% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 58 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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