How much did THE GAP FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE GAP FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

disaster reliefmuseum

2022

grovehungerfood shelflawtoncasafundamentalptsa

2023

boys girlsgirls greaterbrothers sistersvoices childrenwayfoster caresafe

2024

womens empowermentpriwoodlawnsouth mebanemebane elementarychildrens advocacyelementary parent

2025

womens empowermentathleticstreetfeed starvingstarving childrenpromisehealth nursing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 713 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k699 grants · $273k
$10k–50k5 grants · $69k
$50k–250k8 grants · $570k
$250k+1 grant · $329k

$200

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

GLIDE FOUNDATION$329,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$150,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
ACCION LATINA$55,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO$55,000
GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY$55,000
SF SAFEHOUSE$55,000
DIRECT RELIEF$50,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$50,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$21,000
TWLOHA INC$15,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY-PENNSYLVANIA$12,100
NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN$10,500
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
PACK PEOPLE OF ACTION CARING FOR KIDS$8,650

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $268k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.7M · 889 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

889 repeat relationships — 413 still active in FY2025, 476 since wound down; 130 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

889

981

Total granted

$4.7M

$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+46%

Still filing today

73%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

CF
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
3× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +455%
O
OPPORTUNITYWORK
2× · 2022–2023 · $500k · revenue +240%
WA
WATERAID AMERICA INC
3× · 2022–2025 · $151k · revenue +87%

Funded once

FF
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINASE4E RELIEF LLC
one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue -16%
GC
GLOBAL COMMUNITIESgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue +44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.

Human Services

Shelter Inc

Shelter's mission is to end the cycle of child abuse by providing a comprehensive network of support to children, their families, and our community to create safe, health, and nurturing homes.

Housing & Shelter

Crisis Center for South Suburbia

The Crisis Center for South Suburbia is a non-profit community organization providing emergency shelter and essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence while addressing the societal issues contributing…

Human Services

Mary's Shelter

Loving children from the beginning. changing lives forever

Human Services

Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services

2ND Chance Inc

To provide shelter and aid to the victims of domestic violence.

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New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need.

Human Services

Family Crisis Center Inc

The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.

Human Services

United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services

Childrens Aid Society

To provide residential, shelter, and foster care, adoption and diagnositc services to children.

Human Services

Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Second Harvest of. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%9/2,287

the rest of the field

11%

206,155/1,817,278

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.

05the grantee network

1420 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

444

Early backer (in before they grew)

1397/1420

Grantees still filing

1180/1420

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,934,615International$1,076,852Public Safety & Disaster$654,550Philanthropy$563,910Employment$560,750Human Services$394,380Religion$338,810

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.

Mary Kay Ash FoundationTX42.7× affinity68 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mary Kay Ash Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Yougivegoods Foundation Inc · Simple Generosity Foundation · Feeding America · Ticket to Dream Foundation · United Animal Nations Dba Redrover · Zumiez 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 organisation THE GAP 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

20get no government money at all

5rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LETTERS OF LOVE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 825148247 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LETTERS OF LOVE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Gap Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gap Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines