Maryland · Private foundation
John G & Jean R Gosnell 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $1.1M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.0M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $1.0M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $815k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $712k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $773k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $445k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity Inc | $495,000 | 7 | 1% |
| National Park Foundation | $385,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Conservancy Inc | $352,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Centronia | $340,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of the Nation's Capital Inc | $290,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Literacy Lab | $265,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Nature Forward | $255,000 | 7 | 1% |
| City Blossoms Inc | $255,000 | 6 | 6% |
| National Park Trust Inc | $252,200 | 7 | 1% |
| Anacostia Watershed Society Inc | $210,000 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Hattie M Strong Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation
How this is measured
Compare John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation with peer funders
About John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation
- How much does John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation give?
- John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $1,130,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (34%), Education (24%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Identity Inc ($495k), National Park Foundation ($385k), Chesapeake Conservancy Inc ($353k).
- Does John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
- Where is John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation based?
- John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation is based in MD.
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