How much did The Gap Foundation grant in FY2025?

Public Safety & Disaster$2.6MInternational$1.7MYouth Development$668kEmployment$629kHuman Services$568kCivil Rights$568kPhilanthropy$553kEducation$267kOther$0

02FY2025 · 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
Recipient	Amount
GLIDE FOUNDATION	$329,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$150,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$100,000
ACCION LATINA	$55,000
SF SAFEHOUSE	$55,000
GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY	$55,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO	$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, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. 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 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.

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.3M · 891 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

891 repeat relationships — 415 still active in FY2025, 476 since wound down; 127 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

891

972

Total granted

$5.3M

$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%

+10%

Still filing today

82%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & 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 +117%
GF
GLIDE FOUNDATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $562k · revenue +51%
OI
OPPORTUNITYWORK INC
2× · 2022–2023 · $500k · revenue +10%

Funded once

FF
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINASE4E RELIEF LLC
one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
GC
GLOBAL COMMUNITIES
one grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue -5%
RH
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +29%

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 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%20/2,456

the rest of the field

13%

240,376/1,817,109

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.

04the grantee network

1564 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. 1564 of the 2,000 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

201

Early backer (in before they grew)

1537/1564

Grantees still filing

976/1564

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,974,478International$1,752,852Public Safety & Disaster$650,100Religion$565,350Employment$555,000Human Services$554,270Philanthropy$535,760

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return)GA72.2× affinity137 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Mary Kay Ash Foundation · Ronald McDonald House Global · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · United Animal Nations Dba Redrover · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Charles Schwab Foundation · Bobs Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation Inc · Delivering Good Inc

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 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

5rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Gap Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gap 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home