· Private foundation
The Gumbo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $244,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $355,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $111,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k27 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center Duke University Medical Center | $25,000 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | $20,000 |
| Team Gleason Foundation | $15,000 |
| UNC Foundation, Inc | $10,000 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina | $10,000 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $10,000 |
| Chastain Park Therapeutic Riding Program | $10,000 |
| US Equestrian Opportunity Fund | $10,000 |
| Durham Academy | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. | $10,000 |
| Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities | $5,000 |
| Humane Society of the United States | $5,000 |
| US Fund for UNICEF | $5,000 |
| LDF Development NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. | $5,000 |
| Santa Fe Animal Shelter | $5,000 |
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.
27 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC2× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +37%- TGTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +243%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC2× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- UHUNC Healthcare NC Children's Hospital Patient Assistance Fundone grant, 2019 · $10k
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +44%- DUDuke University Eye Centerone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Basset Hound Rescue of Georgia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 47 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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORSE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BASSET HOUND RESCUE OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds St Gerard House ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: The Allene & Jerome Lapides Foundation · Jm Lazarus Foundation · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Mark and Suzanne Vollette Cft · The Melville Hankins Family Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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.
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