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The G&S Foundation at a glance

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The G&S Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$389kArts & Culture$123kCivil Rights$78kHealth$33kEnvironment$27kInternational$5kHuman Services$5kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL CAMP TREETOPS$26,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$25,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$10,000
FILM FORUM$5,000
COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS$5,000
S'COOL SOUNDS$1,000
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM$1,000
SKY TRUTH$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS: $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

AK
VT
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
WV
AZ
DC
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$560k · 11 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

$560k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+12%

Still filing today

91%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $312k · revenue +50%
  • LC
    LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +264%
  • S
    SKYTRUTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • CH
    CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTH TEXAS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • TM
    TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
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
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
9
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
10
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Legacy Community Health Services 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

24 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. 24 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $312,100 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INCNATURE CONSERVANCY (ALASKA DIVISION): $15,000 · Other+11 more: $22,655 · Other+11 moreDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $50,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and…FILM FORUM INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INCYELLOW BARN INC: $16,250 · Arts & CultureYELLOW BARN INCTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN…+4 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER F…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $70,433 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVER…LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 · HealthWSWA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthSKYTRUTH: $10,000 · EnvironmentGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $500 · EnvironmentCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 · InternationalTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $3,200 · International
Other$349,755Arts & Culture$119,750Civil Rights$75,000Community Improvement$70,433Health$27,500Environment$11,500International$8,200

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 budgetNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $312,100 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $70,433 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW BARN INC: $16,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSKYTRUTH: $10,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $3,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWSWA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOOL SOUNDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe New School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUEST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesign History Foundation Inc: $500 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.

Aetna Foundation IncJewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Aetna Foundation IncCT12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The G&S Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The G&S Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The G&S Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The G&S Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 30 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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