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· Private foundation
GWENJOSH FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$117k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
3
Communities
$42k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of GWENJOSH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
arts
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
rightsissueshealthsan francisco
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- HEKAB BE BIBLIOTECA USA$41,553
- WHEATON COLLEGE$15,000
- SAN FRANCISCO SPIKES$10,000
- CTE AT TAMALPAIS HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
- THE GENDER DISTRICT$10,000
- LYRIC$5,000
- PACIFIC CENTER FOR HUMAN GROWTH$5,000
- GENDER LAW CENTER$5,000
- LGBT ASYLUM PROJECT$5,000
- SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY HEALTH$5,000
- TULUM FOOD SUPPORT$3,000
- SHELDRICK TRUST USA$2,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$583k · 12 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
3
Total granted
$583k
$31k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+21%
+165%
Still filing today
42%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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
WHEATON COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $122k · revenue +13%- TGTHE GAME ACADEMY4× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +1%
- TSTHE SPAHR CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- BBEACHMUTTSORGgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +165%
- MSMONARCHS SOCCER CLUBone grant, 2022 · $13k
- AHAVALON HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Sacramento Lgbt Community Center
The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.
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2
Oakland Lgbtq Community Center Inc
The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center is dedicated to enhancing and sustaining the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, our families and allies, by providing educational, social, and health related…
Community Improvement
3
The Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community
To enhance the lives and promote fairness for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of santa cruz county, california
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4
Marina Counseling Center
To provide high-quality, heart-centered, affordable, and accessible psychotherapy to our diverse San Francisco/Bay Area communities. The MCC offers excellent training and supervision for the next generation of mental health professionals.
Health
5
Aids Legal Referral Panel of the San
To advance and protect the rights, dignity and health of people living with hiv/aids.
Health
6
San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual
The center connects community to resources, opportunities & each other to build a stronger community. the center is a welcoming place for our diverse lgbt community and its supporters to find innovative services and fabulous cultural…
Community Improvement
7
Palm Center
The Palm Center engaged in research and programming to inform public opinion about transgender military service.
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8
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness
Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy & needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.
Health
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Marin History Museum
The Marin History Museum is an active, artifact-based institution dedicated to sharing local history with the people of Marin County and beyond.
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10
Openhouse
Openhouse enables San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ seniors to overcome the unique challenges they face as they age by providing housing, direct services and community programs.
Housing & Shelter
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Van Ness Recovery House
A certified alcohol and drug recovery home designed to provide opportunities to the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender and heterosexual communities. services, in english and spanish, provide residents housing and education while…
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12
Monterey Peninsula Pride
Monterey Peninsula Pride creates celebratory and safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ expression and allyship across the Monterey Peninsula.
Civil Rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Game Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$468,156Education$157,000Animals$17,000Human Services$10,000
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.
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.
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation GWENJOSH 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SAN FRANCISCO SPIKES.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 943063358 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SAN FRANCISCO SPIKES, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Gwenjosh Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Gwenjosh Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines