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The Gordon T and Melissa a Egan Family Foundation at a glance

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The Gordon T and Melissa a Egan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$277kHealth$210kHuman Services$104kYouth Development$87kPhilanthropy$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$57kAnimals$35kRecreation & Sports$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$1,200
THE VILLAGE ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL & COMMUNITY CENTER$1,200
LODI HOUSE HOPE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN$1,000
FIELDHAVEN FELINE CENTER$526
LINCOLN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$500
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $39k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $21k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%PARENTS BY CHOICE: $2k → 12%HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN BUTTERFLY AUXILIARY: $4k → 12%HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN BUTTERFLY AUXILIARY: $3k → 12%HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN: $3k → 12%HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN: $3k → 12%HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN: $2k → 12%HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN BUTTERFLY AUXILIARY: $2k → 12%HOSPICE OF SAN JOAQUIN: $1k → 12%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$793k · 30 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
22

Total granted

$793k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+56%

Still filing today

47%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • MG
    MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $78k · revenue +19%
  • LB
    LODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $68k · revenue +330%
  • GF
    GO2 For Lung Cancer
    4× · 2019–2022 · $52k · revenue +175%

Funded once

  • SV
    SONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +148%
  • SG
    SUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURE
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • SM
    SAINT MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $14k
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
San Joaquin Valley Youth for Christ

To direct youth into an understanding of the Christian faith and to support and encourage them in their walk with God.

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2
SJVWater

Education

Environment
3
California Fire Chiefs Ems Fire and Education Foundation

Education of Emergency First Responders.

Education
4
San Joaquin Medical Scholarship Loan Fund

Scholarship loans to medical students

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5
Santa Rosa American Little League

The organization provides a little league for various different age groups in the santa rosa, california area

Human Services
6
End of Life Choices California

To provide californians the information and support to successfully navigate their legal end-of-life options.

Health
7
Sonoma Preschool Academy

preschool and after-care for children ages 2-5.

Education
8
San Jose Vietnam War Memorial

Create and maintain a public Memorial honoring the Veterans from the Vietnam War in San Jose, California.

Public Benefit
9
The Gabriel Foundation

To help underprivileged and disadvantaged children in the east san gabriel valley.

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10
Kern County Network for Children

Assure community services to children

Human Services
11
Santa Clara County Kinship Adoptive & Foster Parent Association

Provides resources and advocates for the needs of foster and adoptive families in santa clara county.

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12
Palo Alto Friends Nursery School

Preschool program servicing approximately 80 children, five days per week, ten months per year.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 55 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OMEGA NU-ALPHA DELTA CHAPTER: $87,260 · OtherOMEGA NU-ALPHA DELTA CHAPTERVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: $54,504 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONSIndividual grant recipient: $53,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLINCOLN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $52,275 · OtherLINCOLN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTTHE BONNIE J ADDARIO A BRANCH - A BREATH AWAY FROM THE CURE FOUNDATION: $37,376 · OtherTHE BONNIE J ADDARIO A BRANCH - A BREATH AWAY FROM THE CURE FOUNDA…ALBIE CARSON BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherALBIE CARSON BREAST CANCER FOUNDATIONThe Cedars of Marin: $21,505 · OtherLODI HOUSE HOPE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $21,088 · Other+33 more: $176,100 · Other+33 moreGO2 For Lung Cancer: $51,764 · HealthGO2 For Lung C…Albie Aware Inc: $40,000 · HealthAlbie Aware In…First Responders Resiliency: $10,500 · HealthFirst Responde…Cancer Kids of San Joaquin County Inc: $8,500 · HealthCancer Kids of…TEEN CHALLENGE OF MONTEREY BAY INC: $5,420 · HealthMARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $78,265 · Human ServicesMARY GRAHAM…Hospice of San Joaquin: $17,100 · Human ServicesHospice of …+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesLODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $67,586 · Youth DevelopmentSONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFieldHaven Feline Center: $30,066 · AnimalsVINEYARD CHRISTIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $14,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $8,500 · EducationKENTWOOD EDUCATION FUND: $5,360 · Education
Other$539,058Health$116,184Human Services$97,365Youth Development$67,586Public Safety & Disaster$45,000Animals$30,066Education$28,360

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $78,265 over 4y, 12% of budgetLODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $67,586 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetGO2 For Lung Cancer: $51,764 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAlbie Aware Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetFieldHaven Feline Center: $30,066 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Cedars of Marin: $21,505 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of San Joaquin: $17,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVINEYARD CHRISTIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $14,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSJFB FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION: $12,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetFirst Responders Resiliency: $10,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD OF WONDERS SCIENCE MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBROADENING EDUCATIONAL POSSIBILITIES INC: $9,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCancer Kids of San Joaquin County Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF MONTEREY BAY INC: $5,420 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKENTWOOD EDUCATION FUND: $5,360 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMUSTANG WRESTLING FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,100 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS BY CHOICE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOOVER TYLER LITTLE LEAGUE: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Albie Aware Inc ↗
  • 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 Cancer Kids of San Joaquin County Inc ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 GOSPEL CENTER RESCUE MISSION INC ↗

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.

Crete Family Foundati…The Cortopassi Family…Vaquero FoundationThe 54 FundThe Antone and Marie …San Joaquin Community…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Crete Family FoundationWA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gordon T and Melissa a Egan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gordon T and Melissa a Egan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Gordon T and Melissa a Egan 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.

    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 55 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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