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Jean Gaulin 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.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Youth Development$490kFood & Nutrition$485kReligion$360kHealth$329kArts & Culture$240kEducation$177kHuman Services$151kPhilanthropy$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $280k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$75,000
Givewell - Top Charities Fund$55,000
Sun Youth Organization$50,000
The Food Project$50,000
Bethesda$50,000
HEC Montreal Foundation$35,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of Am$25,000
Boston Public Are Triennal$25,000
Foundation Vero et Louis$20,000
Foundation des jeunes de la DPJ$20,000
Palliacco$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Friends of U of M$20,000
Palaver Strings$10,000
Le Naison Pause Parent$10,000
02The need
03

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 US giving — 63% of grant dollars ($1.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 37% that went abroad ($1.0M) is mapped below.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hammock Dunes Cares: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
NC
DC
FL

Beyond the US — 37% of all-years giving ($1.0M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$1.0M · 34 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 23 repeat orgs$696k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
23

Total granted

$2.0M
$521k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+23%

Still filing today

35%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $410k · revenue +89%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER OF DELRAY BEACH INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $70k · revenue +30%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    3× · 2017–2020 · $56k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • BF
    Baptist Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SY
    Sun Youth
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • BH
    Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +118%

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.

1
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

6
Boston Architectural College

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

7
Baystate Wing Hospital Corporation

The mission of the organization is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.

Health
8
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
9
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
12
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fenway Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bethesda 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $410,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCFOUNDATION PERE SABLON — $200,000 · OtherFOUNDATION PERE SABLONJeunesse au SoleilSun Youth — $170,000 · OtherJeunesse au SoleilSun YouthIndividual grant recipient — $115,000 · OtherJeunesse AU SoleilSun Youth Organ — $110,000 · OtherGivewell - Top Charities Fund — $95,000 · OtherSun Youth Organization — $90,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER — $75,000 · Other+34 more — $947,000 · Other+34 moreBETHESDA INC — $100,000 · HealthBETHESDA IN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $90,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $50,000 · HealthBaptist Hea…FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $25,000 · HealthFENWAY COMM…+1 more — $9,000 · HealthPALAVER STRINGS INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ART OGUNQUIT D/B/A OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTrustees of Tufts College — $56,000 · EducationThe Food Project Inc — $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CLEAR FUND — $20,000 · PhilanthropyAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc — $15,000 · AnimalsHAMMOCK DUNES CARES INC F/K/A HAMMOCK DUNES CARES LLC — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$2,212,000Health$274,000Arts & Culture$65,000Education$56,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Philanthropy$20,000Animals$15,000Human Services$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $410,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER OF DELRAY BEACH INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $56,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALAVER STRINGS INC — $55,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF ART OGUNQUIT D/B/A OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAMMOCK DUNES CARES INC F/K/A HAMMOCK DUNES CARES LLC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds BETHESDA INC
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER OF DELRAY BEACH INC
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds PALAVER STRINGS INC
  • Who funds Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc
  • Who funds The Food Project Inc
  • Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc
  • Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE CLEAR FUND
  • Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Jean Gaulin 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 22%
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc27% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jean Gaulin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jean Gaulin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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