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The Gemini 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 34
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$100k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Gemini Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$2k0%
FY202410$43k20%
FY20235$2k80%
FY20228$76k25%
FY202129$196k34%
FY202034$164kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$150kReligion$106kEducation$96kHealth$43kArts & Culture$28kHuman Services$26kEnvironment$20kYouth Development$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation$150,20031%
Boca Grande Woman's Club Inc$30,50033%
Boca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc$30,10020%
Boca Grande United Methodist Church$30,0002n/a
Friends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc$26,50030%
Villa Duchesne - Oak Hill School$25,0001n/a
The Boca Grande Preschool Inc$11,5003n/a
Little Traverse Conservancy Inc$10,70050%
Washington University$10,00010%
Les Cheneaux Culinary School Inc$10,00021%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gemini Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMcLaren Northern Michigan Foundation: $150,200 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBoca Grande Woman's Club Inc: $30,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBoca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc: $30,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc: $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $10,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWashington University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLes Cheneaux Culinary School Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Charlotte County: $7,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity of St Louis: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Traverse Bay Humane Society: $3,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Island School Inc: $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor Springs Festival of the Book: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHarbor Hall Foundation: $3,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe George W Bush Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarrier Island Parks Society Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHessel School House Corporation: $1,100 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Traverse Sailors: $700 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRoyal Palm Players Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRetirement Home For Horses Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Caregiver Club: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUseppa Island Historical Society: $150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGoochlandCares: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarbor Springs Chamber Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTidewell Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSusquehanna Spca Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · The V & L Marx Foundation · The Shore Lane Family Foundation Inc · Carbonari Family Foundation · Sweet Peas Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Edwardson Family Foundation · Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation 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.

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About The Gemini Foundation

How much does The Gemini Foundation give?
The Gemini Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $2,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Gemini Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Religion (22%), Education (20%).
Who are The Gemini Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation ($150k), Boca Grande Woman's Club Inc ($31k), Boca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc ($30k).
Does The Gemini Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gemini Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gemini Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr, Linda & Barry Allen Foundation.
Where is The Gemini Foundation based?
The Gemini Foundation is based in FL.

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 52 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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