· Private foundation
John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY | $350,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER (ELPC) | $100,000 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC | $50,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ST CHRYSOSTOM'S CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ST CHRYSOSTOMS DAY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $15,000 |
| REHABILITATION INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE (AEI) | $10,000 |
| EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| GOODMAN THEATER FUND | $5,000 |
| EAGLE HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GROTON SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| TEAM IMPACT | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EHEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +28%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +226%- HSHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- ESEAGLEBROOK SCHOOL CAPITAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 2 X 20 COMMITTEE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $20k
- HSHARRIS SCHOOL PLAQUEone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.
Education and Research
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 86 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANTHONY TRUST OF HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds DUNE ACRES CIVIC IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds Madonna Mission ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · Legatus Foundation · CMB Foundation · Madigan Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · The Zeckhauser Foundation · The James E & Constance L Bell Foundation · Cox Foundation Inc · Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation · Donald Grant & Ann Martin Calder Foundat
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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