· Private foundation
GSGN 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP | $27,500 |
| LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION | $3,025 |
| LAS CANDALISTAS INC | $2,000 |
| LIFE COVENANT CHURCH-TORRANCE CA | $1,750 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY | $1,650 |
| Palos Verdes Peninsula High | $1,500 |
| PALOS VERDES JUNIOR WOMENS CLUB | $500 |
| PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $325 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PVPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +9%
- LWLOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +41%
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6k
- TWT Wayone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide Opportunity for girls age 5 to 14 to play organized Softball
Fostering excellence in education through pvusd.
To focus on water polo fundamentals and positve mentoring which builds our athletes into champions, and provides benefits that transcend our sport and help our families and communtity thrive.
To provide support to the students, school, parents and community through enrichment and educational programs and activities.
The palos verdes estates foundation strengthens our community by encouraging philanthropy through public-private partnerships with the city of palos verdes estates, augmenting cultural, recreational, lifestyle and safety programs.
The portola valley schools foundation seeks to provide general financial support for the portola valley school district.
Palos verdes peninsula land conservancy, "pvplc", mission is to preserve land and restore habitat for the education and enjoyment of all. (see schedule o for further description).pvplc's vision is the preservation and management of large…
To support and advance the mission of california state polytechnic university, pomona. to fulfill its mission, the philanthropic foundation promotes, secures and stewards private support for the university through the receipt and…
The palomar college foundation, with the support of the community, secures supplemental funding, other resources, and provides program support for the benefit of palomar community college and its students.
The organization supports various academic, athletic and arts programs for general operating expenses and facility repairs and maintenance at palos verdes high school, palos verdes estates, ca
To support the students, teachers, and school by providing educational enrichment opportunities, supplies, equipment, and facility improvement.
To provide and augment programs that are an integral part of the educational mission of the university, primarily in the acquisition, investment and administration of gifts and endowments for the benefit of the university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Las Candalistas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Partners in Hope Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
16 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. 16 of the 40 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY ↗
- Who funds LAS CANDALISTAS INC ↗
- Who funds A PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds VISTAS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds FRAM CQ ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES ON THE NET ↗
- Who funds TORRANCE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUMINARIES OF TORRANCE MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Confidence Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 GSGN 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.
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.