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National Gift Annuity Foundation

Ngaf is a national gift annuity program organized and operated exclusively as a type I supporting organization to dechomai foundation inc ein 06-1676688.

$568k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$3.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.0MEducation$2.9MPhilanthropy$2.9MArts & Culture$1.1MReligion$1.0MEnvironment$830kScience & Tech$451kInternational$345kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $862k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.8M
$47,849
Median grant
9
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$3,148,053
Vanguard Charitable$2,643,014
California Academy of Science$211,170
Hillsdale College$196,743
Hoover Presidential Foundation$78,300
US Olympic and Paralympic Foundation$76,149
Sempervirens Fund$62,331
Save the Redwoods League$62,331
Land Trust of Santa Cruz County$62,331
Peninsula Open Space Trust$62,331
Yosemite Foundation dba Yosemite Conservancy$50,718
Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque$47,849
Give-Mentor-Love Foundation$21,162
the Quad Cities Community Foundation$19,026
Palm Beach Opera$15,396
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 (FY17–24, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Cypress Cove Health Park: $60k → 11%GREENSPRING VILLAGE INC: $41k → 6%Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund: $7k → 9%MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC: $45k → 10%GREENSPRING RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $6k → 6%Give-Mentor-Love Foundation: $21k → 14%Greenspring Retirement Com: $5k → 6%Canterbury on the Lake Retirement Community: $40k → 8%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
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 18 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
80

Total granted

$5.3M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+38%

Still filing today

83%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +29%
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    2× · 2022–2024 · $265k · revenue +1%
  • MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $137k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $556k · revenue -8%
  • Portland Museum of Artgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $402k · revenue +33%
  • TT
    THE TECH INTERACTIVE
    one grant, 2022 · $332k · revenue -17%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
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
6
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quad Cities Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Tbs Endowment Fund 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

103 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. 103 of the 120 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
75/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,323,597 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA…CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $662,563 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA IN…SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $555,767 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISC…+7 more: $294,205 · Health+7 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $2,643,014 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE …+6 more: $187,411 · Philanthropy+6 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $309,748 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGECONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $295,838 · EducationCONTRA COSTA JEWISH …MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $137,199 · Education+15 more: $489,451 · Education+15 moreTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF MICHIGAN INC: $240,284 · OtherTHE PROTESTANT EPISC…ADRIAN DOMINICAN SISTERS: $168,130 · OtherADRIAN DOMINICAN SIS…DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY MOTHER OF EUCHARIST: $100,497 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $308,876 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF …PRIESTS FOR LIFE: $138,061 · Other+55 more: $1,881,920 · Other+55 morePortland Museum of Art: $402,289 · Arts & CulturePortland …THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $331,853 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH …CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $265,133 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNI…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC: $153,708 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN …CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $67,745 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $115,596 · Arts & Culture+8 moreMIDDLE COLORADO WATERSHED COUNCIL: $96,246 · EnvironmentWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $88,108 · EnvironmentSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $62,331 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $62,331 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $62,331 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $62,331 · EnvironmentTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $129,161 · AnimalsPAULINE S SCHNEEGAS WILDLIFE FOUNDA: $96,246 · AnimalsBAT WORLD SANCTUARY: $77,008 · AnimalsAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $48,450 · AnimalsFlorida Wildlife Federation: $15,898 · Animals
Health$4,836,132Philanthropy$2,830,425Education$2,732,236Other$2,837,768Arts & Culture$1,336,324Environment$433,678Animals$366,763

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,323,597 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $2,643,014 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $662,563 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $555,767 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $402,289 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $331,853 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $309,748 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $308,876 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $295,838 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $265,133 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS INC: $153,708 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $138,061 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $137,199 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $129,161 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDDLE COLORADO WATERSHED COUNCIL: $96,246 over 1y, 21% of budgetPAULINE S SCHNEEGAS WILDLIFE FOUNDA: $96,246 over 1y, 43% of budgetANN'S CHOICE INC: $92,779 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $92,358 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $88,108 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $85,698 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $83,606 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION INC: $83,035 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSACRAMENTO METRO CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $82,140 over 1y, 11% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $78,300 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBAT WORLD SANCTUARY: $77,008 over 1y, 11% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $76,767 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $76,149 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,477 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $71,232 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $67,745 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $65,232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $62,331 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $62,331 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $62,331 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $62,331 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $61,107 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYPRESS COVE AT HEALTHPARK FLORIDA INC: $59,977 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENSPRING VILLAGE INC: $52,752 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $48,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $48,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Catholic Foundation for the Archdiocese of Dubuque: $47,849 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC: $45,383 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGuideStream Charitable Gift Fund: $44,817 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOX RUN VILLAGE INC: $43,922 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANTERBURY HEALTH CARE INC: $40,072 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Comerica Charitable T…Ibm International Fou…Marin Community Found…Community Foundation …Ge Aerospace Foundati…Western Colorado Comm…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Gordon E and Betty I …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bessemer Giving F…
Comerica Charitable TrustMI28.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Comerica Charitable Trust · Ibm International Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund

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 National Gift Annuity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Gift Annuity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sherrill House Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Steps to Success Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Brooksby Village Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Cedar Crest Village Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 120 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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