· Private foundation
Kenneth P Gifford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POSITIVE DIRECTIONS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| YMCA | $1,371 |
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 human-services grants (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +150% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2019–2025 · $30k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO2× · 2019–2020 · $30k
- YYMCA2× · 2019–2025 · $21k
Funded once
- SUSchreiner Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +36%
- EPEL PASO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +53%
- EPEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGERone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We drive economic and political empowerment.
To provide access to quality, affordable, primary care and preventative services by reaching out to everyone, including the underserved. program services are delivered through ten clinical sites located throughout wichita falls, vernon,…
Advancing human understanding through education, research, and practice in behavioral science
To provide high quality, comprehensive, and cost effective healthcare responsive to the needs of the communities we serve.
The mission of family service agency is to strengthen and advocate for families and individuals of all ages and diversities, helping to create and preserve a healthy community.
Presbyterian exists to ensure all of the patients, members and communities we serve can achieve their best health.
Lead efforts to identify and support initiatives that improve college readiness and ensure more students graduate with a college degree or certification. partner with education leaders, funders, and regional, state, and national…
Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.
The health trust aims to improve health and quality of life for residents of the greater pajaro valley by providing health promotion services and diabetes self-management education. additionally, we convene cross-sector stakeholders to…
To implement solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community. we collaborate with others as well as create signature, evidence-based ways to improve the communities where people live, work, learn…
Our mission is to foster community well-being in partnership with our patients by providing excellent, accessible, family-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care. our vision is "healthy lives for all in a healthy santa fe"…
To empower individuals and families across the life span by providing multiple, integrated services that meet the needs of san antonio's neighborhood and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Paso Diabetes Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds Schreiner University ↗
- Who funds EL PASO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AMISTAD INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
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.
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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 Kenneth P Gifford 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.
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.
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