· Private foundation
The Gama Foundation
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 $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $15,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE | $13,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| SVG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EDUCARE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LITTLE ESSENTIALS | $1,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +98%- HOHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +28%
- NCNATIONAL CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $12k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEone grant, 2021 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -47%
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.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
We exist to glorify god by demonstrating his love to the philippines as we provide a loving, christ-centered home with comprehensive medical, educational and placement services for homeless filipino children.
We partner with families to help children with special health care needs live a great life.
Children's services
To improve the health of children who suffer from congenital heart disease and live in economically challenged countries around the world
Advocacy for abused children
Food service for the poor, economically disadvantaged, and elderly.
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Vision: a world where no child's life is torn apart by war.children in conflict works tirelessly to restore hope, safety and childhoods to children whose lives are affected by war.
Child care connection provides the tools and education to give each child the very best start in life.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Educare Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ESSENTIALS ↗
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 The Gama 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.