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The Gleason Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$385k
Largest
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MHealth$656kArts & Culture$580kHuman Services$452kPublic Safety & Disaster$230kReligion$224kInternational$198kPhilanthropy$181kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $402k
  • $250k+1 grant · $385k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$971k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN PAUL II CATHLOIC SCHOOL$385,000
KCNQ2$125,000
CCDG$75,000
MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES$52,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$50,000
THE SANDBOX$50,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB$50,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
WARRIOR JACE THOMPSON FOUNDATION$25,000
COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM$25,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$25,000
DEEPWELL$25,000
SALVATION ARMY$25,000
ALL HALLOWS HIGH SCHOOL$18,000
SETON HALL$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $378k) 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%BOYSTOWN: $2k → 12%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%THE SEEING EYE: $2k → 4%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%THE CHILDREN CENTER: $40k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%UNBOUND: $1k → 16%CRISIS AID INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 11%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $7k → 12%RED CROSS: $100k → 14%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $5k → 12%RED CROSS: $25k → 14%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $5k → 12%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 6%RED CROSS: $25k → 14%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 6%RED CROSS: $25k → 14%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 6%RED CROSS: $20k → 14%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $5k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $3k → 12%THE CHILDREN CENTER: $10k → 10%THE CHILDREN CENTER: $10k → 10%MEMORY MATTERS: $6k → 10%CHILDREN CENTER: $5k → 10%MEMORY MATTERS: $5k → 10%CHILDREN CENTER: $2k → 10%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

NH
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RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
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AR
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OK
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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 79 repeat orgs$742k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
45

Total granted

$4.2M
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+9%

Still filing today

52%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2017–2023 · $195k · revenue +46%
  • CD
    COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM
    6× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +14%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • KC
    KCNQ2 Cure Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +346%
  • M
    MITCHELLVILLE
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LOW COUNTY HILTON HEAD SC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
8
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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9
Augusta Health Care Inc

The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health
10
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
11
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hilton Head Heroes Inc. 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

67 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. 67 of the 137 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTIOCH EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $924,840 · OtherANTIOCH EDUCATIONAL CENTERJOHN PAUL II CATHLOIC SCHOOL: $385,000 · OtherJOHN PAUL II CATHLOIC SCHOOLDEEPWELL: $192,254 · OtherKCNQZ: $178,000 · OtherKCNQ2: $175,000 · OtherJOHN PAUL 2: $140,700 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB: $140,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $137,000 · Other+90 more: $1,730,800 · Other+90 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $195,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $67,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $37,500 · Human ServicesNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesEast Cooper Community Outreach: $17,000 · Human Services+7 more: $43,500 · Human ServicesMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $124,000 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $45,000 · International+4 more: $11,500 · InternationalCOASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $135,300 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $21,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Heart Association Inc: $65,000 · HealthKCNQ2 Cure Alliance: $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $14,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · HealthPREGNANCY CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthNAMI National: $6,000 · Health+2 more: $4,500 · HealthHILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $38,995 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $25,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationITHACA COLLEGE: $8,000 · Education+2 more: $6,000 · EducationHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHILTON HEAD HEROES INC: $11,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,003,594Human Services$380,000International$180,500Arts & Culture$156,300Health$152,500Education$102,995Philanthropy$86,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $195,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $135,300 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $124,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $67,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $64,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $38,995 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRITEPATHS INC: $38,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR JACE THOMPSON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetKCNQ2 Cure Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST HELP INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIRASOL HEALTH INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetShelter House Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD HEROES INC: $11,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMEMORY MATTERS: $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOSPREY VILLAGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBethlehem Farm Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMercy Center Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD JEWISH RELIEF USA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnbound: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFERAL CAT HELPERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% 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.

  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BRITEPATHS INC ↗
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR JACE THOMPSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KCNQ2 Cure Alliance ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗

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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · David W Ellis Family Foundation · The Hack Foundation Inc · The Bargain Box · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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

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How do I get to The Gleason Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Gleason Family Foundation Inc 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 137 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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