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Gt 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 $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $342k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $774k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $169,335 |
| HADASSAH THE WOMENS ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC | $144,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $114,500 |
| CHINOOK HORSES | $64,864 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $59,603 |
| MONTANA JEWISH PROJECT | $56,500 |
| EDUCATION PARTNERS NIGERIA INC | $55,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $50,000 |
| EZRA UGANDA ASSISTANCE CO RABBI LEILA GAL BERNER | $35,000 |
| RETURN TO FREEDOM | $34,000 |
| 2LIFE COMMUNITIES | $31,500 |
| SPOONFULS | $30,864 |
| FOR THE LOVE OF ARIA | $30,000 |
| ALL SEATED IN A BARN | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Gt Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
- SSPOONFULS9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +162%
- EPEDUCATION PARTNERS NIGERIA7× · 2019–2025 · $324k · revenue +70% · 51% of their budget
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE3× · 2023–2025 · $280k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $63k
- HHADASSAHone grant, 2017 · $63k
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $63k · revenue +76%
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
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…
To develop and implement strategies to promote more humane, sustainable, community-friendly food choices and advance animal agriculture with special attention to animal protection issues.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, MAZON is a national advocacy organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. See Schedule O for more details.
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heading Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Education Partners Nigeria. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 78 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 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION PARTNERS NIGERIA ↗
- Who funds CAMP FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Montana Jewish Project ↗
- Who funds CHINOOK HORSES ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RETURN TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA ON MAIN STREET ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans For Child Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
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 Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon 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 Gt 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Hope Inc — 51% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- United Way of Milford Inc — 6% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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