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The Gwinn Private Foundation at a glance

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The Gwinn Private Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$47kHealth$32kHuman Services$4kEducation$3kYouth Development$3k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,200
CITY SPRINGS THEATER$2,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,000
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$2,000
DEVEREUX FOUNDATION$1,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
TUN LEGACY FOUNDATION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $723) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GEORGIA SHERIFF'S YOUTH HOMES: $723 → 15%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$74k · 7 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$74k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+12%

Still filing today

86%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +145%
  • HO
    Historic Oakland Foundation Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +72%
  • CS
    City Springs Theatre
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • GS
    GA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCH
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • CH
    CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
American Cancer Society Trust
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3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
5
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute

The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute ALCMI is dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of new and more effective treatment options for lung cancer patients.

Health
8
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
9
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
10
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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11
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ibc Network Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATLANTA LYRIC THEATRE INC: $40,000 · OtherATLANTA LYRIC THEATRE INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $3,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $3,000 · OtherHistoric Oakland Foundation IncGA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCH: $3,000 · OtherGA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCHCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $2,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL …ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,700 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCThe Devereux Foundation: $1,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthCity Springs Theatre: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TUN LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Arts & CultureSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationGEORGIA SHERIFFS' YOUTH HOMES INC: $723 · Human ServicesIBC Network Foundation: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$52,000Health$29,200Arts & Culture$3,500Education$2,000Human Services$723Philanthropy$500

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 budgetATLANTA LYRIC THEATRE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Springs Theatre: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Devereux Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA SHERIFFS' YOUTH HOMES INC: $723 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TUN LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIBC Network Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gwinn Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gwinn Private 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 16 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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