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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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$38kHuman Services$30kEducation$28kReligion$28kHealth$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kPhilanthropy$9kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
$1,650
Median grant
3
States reached
$190k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC: $1k → 11%A PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC: $3k → 11%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%THE NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 9%ILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP: $28k → 7%A PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC: $987 → 11%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%ILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP: $10k → 7%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTE: $3k → 14%CALVARY CHAPEL PALOS VERDES: $2k → 14%LAS CANDALISTAS INC: $2k → 14%LAS CANDALISTAS INC: $2k → 14%VISTAS FOR THE BLIND CHILDRENS CENTER: $2k → 14%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 14%Palos Verdes Peninsula High: $2k → 14%LAS CANDALISTAS INC: $1k → 14%VISTAS FOR CHILDREN INC: $1k → 14%VISTAS FOR CHILDREN INC: $1k → 14%VISTAS FOR CHILDREN INC: $750 → 14%Palos Verdes Peninsula High: $750 → 14%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC: $750 → 14%PALOS VERDES ON THE NET: $700 → 14%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $700 → 14%PTA CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS: $700 → 14%LIFE COVENANT CHURCH: $3k → 14%PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%LIFE COVENANT CHURCH-TORRANCE CA: $2k → 14%LIFE COVENANT CHURCH: $1k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $2k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $2k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $1k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $1k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $1k → 14%LING LIANG WORLD-WIDE EVANGELISTIC MISSION: $800 → 14%TORRANCE SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $6k → 14%TORRANCE SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5k → 14%TORRANCE SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5k → 14%TORRANCE SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 14%TORRANCE SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 14%EARL WATSON ELITE: $2k → 14%FRAM CQ: $3k → 14%MENTALLY FIT: $2k → 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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 15 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
23

Total granted

$126k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-18%

Still filing today

60%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • PV
    PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +9%
  • LW
    LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +41%
  • CS
    CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • TW
    T Way
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

1
Palos Verdes Peninsula Girls Softball League

Provide Opportunity for girls age 5 to 14 to play organized Softball

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2
Pv Schools Education Foundation

Fostering excellence in education through pvusd.

Philanthropy
3
Palos Verdes Water Polo Club

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.

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4
Pta California Congress of Parents - Mira Catalina Elementary School

To provide support to the students, school, parents and community through enrichment and educational programs and activities.

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5
Palos Verdes Estates Foundation

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.

Environment
6
Portola Valley Schools Foundation

The portola valley schools foundation seeks to provide general financial support for the portola valley school district.

Education
7
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy

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…

Environment
8
Cal Poly Pomona Philanthropic Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
9
Palomar College Foundation

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.

Education
10
Palos Verdes High School Booster Club

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

Education
11
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School Ptsa

To support the students, teachers, and school by providing educational enrichment opportunities, supplies, equipment, and facility improvement.

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12
California Polytechnic State University Foundation

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Las Candalistas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TORRANCE SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $19,341 · OtherTORRANCE SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY CHURCHE Way: $10,000 · OtherE WayCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $6,949 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAYIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientT Way: $5,000 · OtherA Rideau: $5,000 · OtherLAS CANDALISTAS INC: $4,800 · OtherJ Allswang: $4,000 · OtherLIFE COVENANT CHURCH: $4,000 · Other+17 more: $22,769 · Other+17 moreILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP: $37,500 · Food & NutritionILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HO…PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,600 · EducationPALOS VERDES P…+1 more: $700 · EducationLOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $7,025 · HealthVISTAS FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,900 · HealthPROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $1,500 · PhilanthropyPALOS VERDES JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $800 · PhilanthropyFRAM CQ: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsPALOS VERDES PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsA PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC: $4,487 · AnimalsTORRANCE POLICE FOUNDATION: $500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$94,359Food & Nutrition$37,500Education$22,300Health$10,925Philanthropy$5,300Recreation & Sports$5,000Animals$4,487Public Safety & Disaster$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP: $37,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $7,025 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $6,949 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAS CANDALISTAS INC: $4,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetA PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC: $4,487 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetVISTAS FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,900 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFRAM CQ: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALOS VERDES JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALOS VERDES ON THE NET: $700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUMINARIES OF TORRANCE MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $300 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • 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 FRAM CQ ↗
  • Who funds PALOS VERDES PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Confidence Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Confidence FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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