How much did THE GOTTFRED FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2018?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of THE GOTTFRED FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2018 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FNDN$2,600
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$2,500
BETHESDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,375
1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AH$1,298
THE FAMILY LEARNING CENTER$1,000
NW MEMORIAL HOSTPICAL FOUND MM$1,000
ARVADA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$500
THE COVE SCHOOL$500
LEAP LEARNING SYSTEMS$500
GILDAS CLUB CHICAGO$300
OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE CHURCH$250
ROLLING MEADOWS HIGH SCHOOL$200
WESTGATE PTA$100
WOUNDED WARRIOR$100
UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE$50

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 77% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$19k · 8 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$19k

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+61%

Still filing today

88%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther

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

BH
BETHESDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +72%
TF
THE FAMILY LEARNING CENTER
2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +26%
TC
THE COVE SCHOOL
2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +45%

Funded once

LC
LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO
one grant, 2017 · $900
SJ
ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP
one grant, 2017 · $500
DS
DELBARTON SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $100

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

International Swimming Hall of Fame

Hall of fame induction september 29 and 30, 2024. approximately 315 persons attended.

Arts & Culture

Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform & enrich the intellectual lives of the 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the dc area & to assist the university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education

The Texas Golf Association

The texas golf association is one of the largest and most respected golf associations in the country, with an ongoing commitment of ensuring that the top resources and most dependable staff are in place to meet current and future needs of…

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United States Figure Skating Association

National governing body for the sport of figure skating.

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North Hills Instrumental

To aid and support all instrumental music groups in the north hills school district

Education

International Surfing Association Inc

To develop and promote the sport of surfing globally. the organization is recognized by the international olympic committee as the world governing authority for surfing, standup paddle (sup) surfing and racing, and all other wave riding…

Recreation & Sports

America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit

Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame

Arts & Culture

Highland Park High School Pta

To provide support for highland park high school

Education

Golf Association of Philadelphia

Recreation & Sports

United States Tennis Association

To promote and develop the growth of tennis in the southwest.

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Federation of State Medical Boards of

Leader in medical regulation, serving as an innovative catalyst for effective policy & standards.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cove School Inc and the most unlike its peers is United States Olympic and Paralympic. 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

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/13

Grantees still filing

10/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$16,273Health$5,900Education$3,200Environment$100Recreation & Sports$50Crime & Legal$50

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.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation THE GOTTFRED 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.

2025

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1get no government money at all

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WESTGATE PTA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +94% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 363673396 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WESTGATE PTA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Gottfred Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gottfred Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE GOTTFRED FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Gottfred Family Foundation?

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THE GOTTFRED FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Gottfred Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph