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The Independent Charitable Gift Fund
Inspiring and enabling americans and their trusted advisors to create, preserve and pass on their philanthropic legacy through donor advised fund solutions where the impact is truly remarkable and the experience is fun, resulting in additional charitable giving.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1,444 grants below total $62,304,918 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $67,229,866 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,924,948 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k321 grants · $2.2M
- $10k–50k879 grants · $16M
- $50k–250k200 grants · $19M
- $250k+44 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $2,076,732 |
| ST ROSE CHURCH | $2,000,000 |
| THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS | $1,634,663 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $1,439,334 |
| SADDLEBACK CHURCH AKA SADDLEBACK VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $1,200,000 |
| ST GEORGE MUSIC THEATER COMPANY | $1,030,000 |
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INC | $1,000,000 |
| CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL | $909,510 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $900,000 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $872,729 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $582,675 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $574,250 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM | $550,000 |
| OPERATION HEALING HEROES FOUNDATION NFP | $550,000 |
| SILVERTON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $514,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $7.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
787 repeat relationships — 658 still active in FY2024, 129 since wound down; 694 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20M 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
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +701%
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +2%- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF PORTLAND OREGON4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +38%
Funded once
- LILITERACY INCone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +3% · 39% of their budget
- SJST JOSEPH PARISHone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
- TRTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUXone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
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.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Lazarus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Miracles From Heaven. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1452 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. 1452 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF PORTLAND OREGON ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds US Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston ↗
- Who funds SUNY MARITIME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE MUSICAL THEATER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING HEROS FOUNDATION NFP ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMETOWN HEROES 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Rowling Foundation · Yontz Valor Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Circle Bar Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · Uncommon Charitable Impact Inc · The Seidler 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 Independent Charitable Gift Fund 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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