· Private foundation
The Gordon T and Melissa a Egan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE GORDON T AND MELISSA A EGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LODI BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $21,554 |
| VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS | $19,823 |
| ALBIE AWARE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| OMEGA NU-ALPHA DELTA CHAPTER | $3,640 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,100 |
| HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN BUTTERFLY AUXILIARY | $3,000 |
| THE CEDARS OF MARIN | $1,575 |
| ST BASIL CHURCH | $1,500 |
| THE VILLAGE ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL & COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| LODI HOUSE HOPE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| FIELDHAVEN FELINE CENTER | $526 |
| LINCOLN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MGMARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $78k · revenue +42%
- LBLODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC5× · 2018–2024 · $68k · revenue +330%
- GFGO2 For Lung Cancer4× · 2019–2022 · $52k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- SVSONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +73%
- SGSUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CUREone grant, 2017 · $15k
- SMSAINT MARY'S HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $14k
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 direct youth into an understanding of the Christian faith and to support and encourage them in their walk with God.
Education
Education of Emergency First Responders.
Scholarship loans to medical students
The organization provides a little league for various different age groups in the santa rosa, california area
To provide californians the information and support to successfully navigate their legal end-of-life options.
preschool and after-care for children ages 2-5.
Create and maintain a public Memorial honoring the Veterans from the Vietnam War in San Jose, California.
To help underprivileged and disadvantaged children in the east san gabriel valley.
Assure community services to children
Provides resources and advocates for the needs of foster and adoptive families in santa clara county.
Preschool program servicing approximately 80 children, five days per week, ten months per year.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sonoma Volunteer Firefighters Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 55 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 MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FieldHaven Feline Center ↗
- Who funds The Cedars of Marin ↗
- Who funds Hospice of San Joaquin ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD CHRISTIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SJFB FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds First Responders Resiliency ↗
- Who funds WORLD OF WONDERS SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BROADENING EDUCATIONAL POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cancer Kids of San Joaquin County Inc ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF MONTEREY BAY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTWOOD EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MUSTANG WRESTLING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
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: Crete Family Foundation · The Cortopassi Family Foundation · Vaquero Foundation · The 54 Fund · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gordon T and Melissa a Egan Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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