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Gracias Family Foundation at a glance

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Gracias 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.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$24MPhilanthropy$16MInternational$2.8MHealth$2.1MArts & Culture$1.5MSocial Science$1.4MYouth Development$1.0MFood & Nutrition$850kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
  • $250k+10 grants · $12M
$350,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$91M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD COLLEGE TRUST$3,162,500
CAF AMERICA$2,000,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$1,900,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY GIVING$1,300,000
INVEST AMERICA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$1,000,000
EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASS INC$500,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$350,000
BIG GREEN$250,000
SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION$250,000
UCS FOUNDATION$100,000
PHILLIPS ACADEMY$100,000
LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
IMPACTASSETS$50,000
FIRST DESCENTS$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASS INC: $500k → 11%Atreides Foundation Fund LP: $10.0M → 16%INVEST AMERICA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 7%Nova Ukraine: $500k → 8%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $1.0M → 14%Fractured Atlas: $179k → 9%HARVARD COLLEGE TRUST: $9.2M → 17%Aspen Institute: $543k → 14%Committee for Open Democracy: $750k → 10%PARKINSONS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $600k → 11%UCS FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%Imperial College Foundation Inc: $291k → 13%Big Green: $350k → 12%FIRST DESCENTS: $25k → 12%PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $100k → 14%CAF AMERICA: $2.0M → 9%Ortus Foundation: $15.0M → 5%SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 23%IMPACTASSETS: $50k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.9M → 11%EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASS INC: $500k → 11%Chicago CRED: $500k → 8%FRACTURED ATLAS: $36k → 9%HARVARD COLLEGE TRUST: $3.2M → 17%ASPEN INSTITUTE: $350k → 14%IMPERIAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 13%BIG GREEN: $250k → 12%Phillips Academy: $100k → 14%CAF America: $250k → 9%SHADY GROVE ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $450k → 8%Johns Hopkins University: $1.0M → 11%Eagle Hill Foundation of Mass Inc: $100k → 11%Multidisciplinary Association Psych: $50k → 8%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount S: $585k → 17%ASPEN INSTITUTE: $300k → 14%BIG GREEN: $250k → 12%PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $100k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 11%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $415k → 17%Aspen Institute: $238k → 14%Wolcott College Prep: $250k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $1.1M → 14%University of Chicago: $1.0M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $1.0M → 14%University of Chicago: $437k → 14%University of Chicago: $24k → 14%BIG SHOULDERS FUND: $25k → 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA
FL
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 12 repeat orgs$31M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$28M
$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-12%

Still filing today

75%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionPublic BenefitEmploymentOther
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

  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE TRUST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12M · revenue +91%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +26%
  • University of Chicago
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • OF
    Ortus Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $15M · 99% of their budget
  • AF
    Atreides Foundation Fund LP
    one grant, 2022 · $10M
  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
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
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
2
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
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
6
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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7
Boston Architectural College

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

—
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
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.

—
10
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chicago Cred Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 31 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD COLLEGE TRUST: $12,325,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE TRUSTAtreides Foundation Fund LP: $10,000,000 · OtherAtreides Foundation Fund LPGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY GIVING: $3,475,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY GIVING+14 more: $4,895,000 · Other+14 moreOrtus Foundation: $15,000,000 · PhilanthropyOrtus FoundationCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,250,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERIC…+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,900,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UN…University of Chicago: $3,586,687 · EducationUniversity of Ch…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,000,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF …The Imperial College Foundation Inc: $315,954 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $215,826 · Arts & CultureTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,430,908 · Social ScienceINVEST AMERICA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentBig Green: $850,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$30,695,000Philanthropy$17,300,000Education$8,827,641Arts & Culture$1,465,826Social Science$1,430,908Youth Development$1,000,000Food & Nutrition$850,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOrtus Foundation: $15,000,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,900,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $3,586,687 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,430,908 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetINVEST AMERICA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Green: $850,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR OPEN DEMOCRACY INC: $750,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetPARKINSONS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetChicago Cred Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHADY GROVE ADVENTIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Imperial College Foundation Inc: $315,954 over 2y, 19% of budgetSIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $215,826 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $25,000 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 Goldman Sachs Cha…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gracias Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gracias Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 31 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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