· Private foundation
The Gambill Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKEWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH (CHECK NO 131 PAID 122425) | $62,112 |
| LAKEWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH (CHECK NO 121 PAID 91025) | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (CHECK NO 126 PAID 110425) | $30,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD MINISTRY (CHECK NO 120 PAID 9525) | $25,000 |
| THUMBS UP MISSION (CHECK NO 127 PAID 111325) | $20,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD MINISTRY (CHECK NO 129 PAID 111925) | $20,000 |
| THUMBS UP MISSION (CHECK NO 124 PAID 102025) | $20,000 |
| CAMP LIGHTHOUSE (CHECK NO 125 PAID 111025) | $10,000 |
| CAMP LIGHTHOUSE (CHECK NO 123 PAID 91225) | $10,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION (CHECK NO 128 PAID 111925) | $10,000 |
| THE KEATON FRANKLIN COKER FOUNDATION (CHECK NO 114 PAID 22425) | $10,000 |
| GOOD NEWS CLINIC (CHECK NO 122 PAID 9925) | $5,000 |
| CAMP LIGHTHOUSE (CHECK NO 119 PAID 52925) | $3,000 |
| COOPER'S CREW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION NE GEORGIA (CHECK NO 117 PAID 61325) | $3,000 |
| NO FRILLS PICKLE BALL FUNDRAISER (CHECK NO 115 PAID 32125) | $1,200 |
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +169% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 16 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k 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
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $29k
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR GYNECOLOGICAL CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $11k
- GNGOOD NEWS CLINICS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue -40%
Funded once
- TKTHE KEATON F COKER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -64%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- NGNORTH GEORGIA WORKS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 32 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.
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: North Georgia Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Gambill Family 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.