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The Gifford Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
71%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$699k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 71% of the organizations The Gifford Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
ReligionHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2024still arriving8$65k63%
FY20237$131k71%
FY20227$88k71%
FY20214$126k75%
FY20204$465k100%
FY20175$61kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$571kHuman Services$175kInternational$73kHealth$32kReligion$30kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CT
CA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rock Road and Rabbi Charitable Trust$560,000270%
Childhelp Inc$115,00030%
Samaritan's Purse$65,25040%
Hopeland$15,00013%
Anchored Outreach$10,0001n/a
Music Health Alliance Inc$10,00010%
Association to Benefit Children$10,00010%
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society$10,00010%
Greenwich Hospital$10,00010%
Bayorg$10,00010%
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of The Gifford Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rock Road and Rabbi Charitable Trust$560,000270%
Childhelp Inc$115,00030%
Samaritan's Purse$65,25040%
Hopeland$15,00013%
Anchored Outreach$10,0001n/a
Music Health Alliance Inc$10,00010%
Association to Benefit Children$10,00010%
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society$10,00010%
Greenwich Hospital$10,00010%
Bayorg$10,00010%
The Rain and Rose Charitable Fund LLC$5,42211%
Garden of Dreams Foundation$5,00010%
Nathan Norris Kreidenweis Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$5,00010%
Patriot Military Family Foundation$5,00011%
Life Outreach International Association of Churches Inc$5,0001n/a
Fusion Global Inc$5,00011%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Gifford Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRock Road and Rabbi Charitable Trust: $560,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetChildhelp Inc: $115,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $65,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHopeland: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMusic Health Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAssociation to Benefit Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNavy-Marine Corps Relief Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBayorg: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rain and Rose Charitable Fund LLC: $5,422 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGarden of Dreams Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPatriot Military Family Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFusion Global Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 14.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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Find your warmest path to The Gifford Family 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.

About The Gifford Family Foundation

How much does The Gifford Family Foundation give?
The Gifford Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Gifford Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), Human Services (19%), International (8%).
Who are The Gifford Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rock Road and Rabbi Charitable Trust ($560k), Childhelp Inc ($115k), Samaritan's Purse ($65k).
Does The Gifford Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gifford Family 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 Gifford Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Gifford Family Foundation based?
The Gifford Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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