· Private foundation
The Gibney Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $875k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES | $68,825 |
| FUTURE IN SIGHT | $53,000 |
| SOUTHERN ARIZONA ASSOCIATION FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $52,500 |
| MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $50,818 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED - SAN FRANCISCO | $50,000 |
| THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $48,000 |
| CONKLIN DAVIS CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $40,000 |
| OUTDOORS FOR ALL | $35,500 |
| MINDING YOUR MIND | $35,000 |
| BLIND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $35,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC - CT CHAPTER | $35,000 |
| IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC | $33,432 |
| VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $31,000 |
| UTAH SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,500 |
| NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Gibney Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 28 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
- MCMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $228k · revenue +92%
- NANORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES6× · 2020–2025 · $226k · revenue +91%
- NHNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE - TGFF DAFone grant, 2021 · $75k
- NBNEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $48k · revenue +167%
VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $42k · revenue +59%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide people with low vision the services and resources that empower independent and productive living. ensight's programs are designed to help our patients overcome barriers to living life independently and safely. hands-on programs…
To support, train, and employ people who are blind or low vision and increase their opportunities to lead an independent and fulfilling life.
Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and…
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
The Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired's mission is to eliminate vision loss as the barrier to employment, community participation or quality of life. We are the only statewide training and resource center for vision…
The colorado center for the blind provides training which enables blind individuals to lead independent productive lives.
Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.
The mission of Delta Gamma Center for Children with Visual Impairments is to help children who are blind or visually impaired reach their full potential through family-centeredm specialized family support.
Vistability is dedicated to enriching the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health needs. we achieve this through our diverse services that support families, foster independence and inspire…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ride for Joy Therapeutic Riding Program Inc. 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.
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 28 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
146 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. 146 of the 183 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.
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Saavi Services for the Blind ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BLIND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Conklin Davis Center for the Visually Impaired Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds The Iris Network ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds EYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Outdoors for all Foundation ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds LOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
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: Delta Gamma Foundation · Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation · Move United · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · National Industries for the Blind · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation 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 Gibney Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Lowell Association for the Blind Inc — 49% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Homeshare Vermont Inc — 32% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Historic Elsinore Theatre Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miracle League of Connecticut Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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