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John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$2.4MEducation$1.7MYouth Development$1.2MHuman Services$682kHealth$553kHousing & Shelter$220kArts & Culture$171kInternational$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $825k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $285k
$30,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC$70,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$60,000
IDENTITY$55,000
NATIONAL PARK TRUST$50,000
CENTRONIA$50,000
SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$45,000
NATURE FORWARD FKA AUDUBON NATURALIST SOCIETY OF THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC STAT$45,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL$40,000
ALICE FERGUSON FOUNDATION$40,000
THE LITERACY LAB$40,000
HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON$40,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$40,000
PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE$40,000
ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION$40,000
IDENTITY$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $677k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BATTERED WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10k → 17%EDUCARE DC: $40k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $40k → 14%REACH EDUCATION INC: $50k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $40k → 14%REACH INC: $30k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $25k → 14%CENTRONA: $50k → 14%CENTRONIA: $50k → 14%CENTRONA: $50k → 14%CENTRO NIA: $50k → 14%CENTRONIA: $50k → 14%CENTRONA: $40k → 14%CENTRONIA: $30k → 14%CENTRONIA: $20k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $20k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $30k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $20k → 14%DC DIAPER BANK: $10k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $9k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
NM
NC
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 48 repeat orgs$551k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
41

Total granted

$6.5M
$511k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+20%

Still filing today

96%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • II
    IDENTITY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $495k · revenue +255%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +117%
  • CC
    CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -75%
  • LH
    LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
9
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Leaders Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Leu Gardens 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

85 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. 85 of the 95 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/85
Grantees still filing
57/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $352,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY …Nature Forward: $255,000 · EnvironmentNature ForwardNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC: $252,200 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARK TRUST INCANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $210,000 · EnvironmentANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOC…Friends of Acadia: $190,000 · EnvironmentFriends of AcadiaAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc: $150,000 · EnvironmentAlice Ferguson Foundati…+5 more: $53,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC: $290,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS…THE LITERACY LAB: $265,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LABASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationASHLEY HALL FOUNDATIONJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSI…GENERATION HOPE: $175,000 · EducationGENERATION HOPEPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $90,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE O…APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION: $55,000 · EducationCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING: $50,000 · Education+4 more: $75,000 · Education+4 moreNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $385,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONDC SCORES: $130,000 · OtherDC SCORESFRIENDS OF LEU GARDENS INC: $95,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF LEU GARDENS I…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $90,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF …Peace of Mind Inc: $85,000 · OtherPeace of Mind IncCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $110,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY OF HOPEKIDS ON POINT INC: $60,000 · OtherMERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC: $58,000 · Other+39 more: $487,750 · Other+39 moreIDENTITY INC: $495,000 · HealthIDENTITY INCPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $135,000 · HealthPARKINSON ASSOC…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $125,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…RARE Hope Inc: $100,000 · HealthRARE Hope IncLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Health+5 more: $77,500 · Health+5 moreCENTRONIA: $340,000 · Human ServicesCENTRONIAEDUCARE DC: $145,000 · Human ServicesEDUCARE DCREACH EDUCATION INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesREACH EDUC…GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $79,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC…+3 more: $32,500 · Human ServicesCITY BLOSSOMS INC: $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentCITY BLOS…LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentLATIN AME…HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS …SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $202,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $135,000 · Arts & CultureMARINE DISCOVERY CENTER: $120,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$1,462,700Education$1,385,000Other$1,500,750Health$982,500Human Services$676,500Youth Development$575,000Arts & Culture$482,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDENTITY INC: $495,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $385,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $352,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRONIA: $340,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC: $290,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $265,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNature Forward: $255,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCITY BLOSSOMS INC: $255,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC: $252,200 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $210,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $202,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $190,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $185,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $175,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGENERATION HOPE: $175,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $145,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetEDUCARE DC: $145,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $135,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDC SCORES: $130,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE DISCOVERY CENTER: $120,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRARE Hope Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEU GARDENS INC: $95,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace of Mind Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetREACH EDUCATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $79,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC: $58,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNONPROFIT MONTGOMERY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDARKNESS TO LIGHT INC: $20,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark Charitable Foun…Nora Roberts Foundati…United Way of the Nat…Dimick Foundation Joh…Richard E & Nancy P M…Clark-Winchcole Found…Corina Higginson Trus…Hattie M Strong Found…John Edward Fowler Me…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC38.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • National Park Trust Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Vermont Woodlands Association: 21% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Sultana Education Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Identity Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home