· Private foundation
Pamela K Watanabe-Gerdeskyle E Gerdes Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of PAMELA K WATANABE-GERDESKYLE E GERDES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY | $15,300 |
| MARIO MURILLO MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| EQUIPNET INC | $2,000 |
| RICK RENNER MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION | $1,000 |
| LIFE CHURCH | $1,000 |
| WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES | $1,000 |
| JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $1,000 |
| ASSURE WOMEN'S CENTER | $1,000 |
| LIVING WATERS | $1,000 |
| CAPPS MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $1,000 |
| JEWISH VOICE | $500 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- FBFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND3× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +43%
- AWAssure Womens Center3× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +106%
- BBBETA BETA GAMMA FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $12k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- OWOKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY - BASEBALLone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…
To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
To bring widow awareness to pastors, churches and communities nationwide in accordance to james 1:27. to ensure that widows are no longer forgotten.
The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Organization's mission: courage for life exists to encourage individuals to embrace their god-given courage for life. we create emotional health, spiritual growth, and bible study resources to disciple individuals to grow in their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Mustang Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 72 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 OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Andrew Wommack Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Assure Womens Center ↗
- Who funds BETA BETA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Reconciliation Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds ONE VOICE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MUSTANG BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds EQUIPNET ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Midlands Community Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Oliver & Ferrol Barklage Foundation · The Rebensdorf Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation
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 Pamela K Watanabe-Gerdeskyle E Gerdes Charitable 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.