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The Gap Foundation at a glance

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The Gap Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
713
Grants FY2025still arriving
47
States reached
$329k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$2.6MInternational$1.7MYouth Development$668kEmployment$629kHuman Services$568kCivil Rights$568kPhilanthropy$553kEducation$267kOther$0
02FY2025 · 713 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k699 grants · $273k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $570k
  • $250k+1 grant · $329k
$200
Median grant
47
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAFE HORIZON INC: $1k → 17%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $2k → 20%BRONXWORKS INC: $3k → 28%CENTER FOR SAFETY CHANGE INC: $6k → 14%CENTER FOR SAFETY CHANGE INC: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 10%THE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $1k → 6%NBCC: $2k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $4k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $4k → 17%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $2k → 7%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $1k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $55k → 14%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $1k → 11%PEPPERS RANCH INC: $4k → 12%ANAS TREASURES: $1k → 16%MOTHER TO MOTHER INC: $2k → 14%NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM: $5k → 15%MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 5%WOMENRISING INC: $2k → 14%PROCLAIMING GRACE OUTREACH: $1k → 5%PEPPERS RANCH INC: $1k → 12%PACK PEOPLE OF ACTION CARING FOR KIDS: $9k → 16%FRANCISCAN CHARITIES INC: $2k → 16%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1k → 7%SOLES 4 SOULS: $1k → 14%PACK PEOPLE OF ACTION CARING FOR KIDS: $9k → 16%MARYLAND CASA ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 11%PACK PEOPLE OF ACTION CARING FOR KIDS: $5k → 16%PACK PEOPLE OF ACTION CARING FOR KIDS: $3k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5k → 8%CHILDRENS FRIEND AND SERVICE: $1k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $2k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5k → 8%MIAMI DIAPER BANK INC: $2k → 15%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $1k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 8%4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $2k → 12%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 8%CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA INC: $2k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC: $2k → 13%ONE HEART FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN INC: $2k → 13%ONE HEART FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN INC: $2k → 13%ONE HEART FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN INC: $1k → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $2k → 14%PADS TO HOPE INC: $3k → 14%PADS TO HOPE INC: $2k → 14%CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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WA
ID
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ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 889 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

889 repeat relationships: 414 still active in FY2025, 475 since wound down; 127 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

889
974

Total granted

$5.3M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+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.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 -38%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +29%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
Mary's Shelter

Loving children from the beginning. changing lives forever

Human Services
5
Chances & Changes Inc

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

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6
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
7
2ND Chance Inc

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

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8
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need.

Human Services
9
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
10
United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services
11
Childrens Aid Society

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

Human Services
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

1568 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1568 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
210
Early backer (in before they grew)
1541/1568
Grantees still filing
987/1568
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINASE4E RELIEF LLC: $1,500,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINASE4E RELIEF LLC+147 more: $1,474,478 · Other+147 moreUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION …COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $272,002 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE…GLOBAL COMMUNITIES: $225,000 · InternationalGLOBAL COMMUNITIESWATERAID AMERICA INC: $150,500 · InternationalWATERAID AMERICA INCPLAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 · InternationalPLAN INTERNATIONAL INC+4 more: $105,350 · International+4 moreCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $600,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FO…LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $50,100 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGEL…GLIDE FOUNDATION: $561,500 · Religion+1 more: $3,850 · ReligionOPPORTUNITYWORK INC: $500,000 · EmploymentYOUTH CO-OP INC: $55,000 · EmploymentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $352,850 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $55,750 · Human ServicesPack People of Action Caring for Kids: $24,950 · Human Services+22 more: $120,720 · Human ServicesSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $200,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $35,760 · Philanthropy
Other$2,974,478International$1,752,852Public Safety & Disaster$650,100Religion$565,350Employment$555,000Human Services$554,270Philanthropy$535,760

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $600,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $561,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITYWORK INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $352,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $272,002 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL COMMUNITIES: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC: $150,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $85,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $77,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH JOB CENTER INC: $58,100 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $56,250 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $55,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $55,480 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $55,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $55,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH CO-OP INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $50,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIRLINK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Space Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Open Hand: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $26,005 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPack People of Action Caring for Kids: $24,950 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTWLOHA INC: $19,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $15,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $14,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $13,720 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $13,440 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERS RANCH INC: $13,350 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC: $11,450 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC: $11,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ivymount School Inc: $10,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDO SOMETHING INC: $10,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD): $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $9,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS FOR BOOTS: $9,180 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PATERSON AND PASSAIC INC: $9,040 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boys & Girls Clubs of…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Mary Kay Ash Foundati…Ronald McDonald House…Rite Aid Healthy Futu…United Animal Nations…Inspire Brands Founda…Cal Ripken Sr Foundat…In-N-Out Burgers Foun…Charles Schwab Founda…Bobs Discount Furnitu…Delivering Good Inc
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gap Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gap Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 4CS of Passaic County Inc: 92% of income from government
  • New Bedford Women's Center Inc: 84% of income from government
  • The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Easter Seals of Oregon: 77% of income from government
  • Maryland Casa Association Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Voices for Children Foundation Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Global Communities: 44% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Garfield Inc: 19% of income from government
  • United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Jersey Cares Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Youth Co-Op Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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