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The Gaius Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN EDUCATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CENTER FOR NEW BEGINNINGS | $7,500 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $6,500 |
| MAOZ ISRAEL MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| WHAT IF FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BEACH FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $5,000 |
| ACADIA WILDLIFE CENTER | $2,500 |
| PEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY | $2,500 |
| MAINE SEACOAST MISSION | $1,500 |
| K-LOVE | $1,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS FAMILY INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CECHRISTIAN EDUCATION LEAGUE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +102%
- FRFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL7× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +63%
- WIWhat If Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- KMKINGSWAY MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CCCOVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLESone grant, 2023 · $4k
- MRMAY RIVER MONTESSORIone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +5%
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.
Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.
In dependence upon Almighty God, for His glory alone, and together with family and church, the mission of Providence Christian Academy is to provide exemplary education for the vulnerable in the light of God's Word for time and eternity.
Seacoast Christian School is a private not-for-profit non-boarding Christian school. In addition to striving for academic excellence, it seeks to teach students to be life-long servants of God and to live out their faith in all area of…
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Portsmouth christian academy exists to honor god joyfully by inspiring students to maximize their god-given potential.
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
In partnership with parents, Artesia Classical Academy equips students to be Christlike disciples and servant-leaders who know and share God's Word.
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
Bethlehem christian school is a non-denominational school that provides a complete educational program that is biblically sound, christ-centered and of excellent academic standards
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
To operate a christian school serving grades k-12
Pantego Christian Academy exists to glorify God by partnering with Christian parents to provide a Christ centered education preparing students for college and the passionate pursuit of God's plan for their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Seacoast Mission and the most unlike its peers is Sandy Mush Community Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 CHRISTIAN EDUCATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONS AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER FOR NEW BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds What If Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAOZ INC ↗
- Who funds BEACH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds PEACE RIDGE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Family Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds MAY RIVER MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds SANDY MUSH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Naples Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds Veritas Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Asheville Christian Academy Inc ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Gaius Foundation Inc 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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