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· Private foundation

The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family

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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$112kReligion$92kHealth$65kFood & Nutrition$15kCrime & Legal$15kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$821k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE FORK FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC$15,000
ARCHBISHOP MCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ADEC INC$10,000
MAY WE HELP INC$5,000
COLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC$5,000
OPERATION GIVE BACK$5,000
THE LIT MOVEMENT$5,000
DO IT FOR JACK$5,000
MERCY NEIGBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC$5,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ADEC INC: $10k → 13%THE LIT MOVEMENT: $25k → 16%THE LIT MOVEMENT: $20k → 16%THE LIT MOVEMENT: $5k → 16%THE LIT MOVEMENT: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$182k · 7 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$182k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+6%

Still filing today

43%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionReligionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

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

  • LM
    LIT MOVEMENT
    4× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +7%
  • AM
    ARCHBISHOP MCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k
  • C
    CISE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue -51%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CURE STARTS NOW INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +6%
  • DS
    DOMINICAN SISTERS OF PEACE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • MH
    MCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $15k

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.

1
Dibs for Kids

DIBS for Kids is on a Mission to help schools provide every child with access to powerful in-home reading experiences, every school night.

Education
2
Ccri Inc

The mission of CCRI is to enhance and enrich the lives and learning of people with disabilities. We help people overcome obstacles by offering unique community opportunities to children, adults, and families affected by disability. Our…

3
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
4
Faith Mission Inc

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Housing & Shelter
5
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
6
First Growth Children & Family Charities Dba Classic Wines Foundation

Based in portland, oregon, we are dedicated to producing food and wine events to raise funds for local nonprofits benefiting children and families.

Human Services
7
Life Teen Inc

Life teen is a missionary youth movement within the catholic church. we believe that eucharist-based ministry has the power to transform teens, transform parishes, and transform culture. our top priorities are resourcing and (continued on…

8
Lift Inc

Lift's mission is to break the cycle of poverty by investing in parents. we build families' well-being, financial strength, and social connections to lift two generations at once.

Employment
9
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
10
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
11
Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services
12
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adec Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jack Quehl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr18%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%39%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr18%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
13%
1,565/12,416

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.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARCHBISHOP MCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP MCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOLST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL INC — $27,000 · OtherST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL INC1N5 — $25,000 · Other1N5DOMINICAN SISTERS OF PEACE INC — $15,000 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS OF PEACE INCMCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOL — $15,000 · OtherMCNICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOLMENTAL MATTERS MISSION — $10,000 · OtherMENTAL MATTERS MISSIONST VINCENT DEPAUL CHARITABLE PHARMACY — $10,000 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL CHARITABLE PHARMACY+8 more — $37,000 · Other+8 moreLIT MOVEMENT — $55,000 · Human ServicesLIT MOVEMENTADEC INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesADEC INCTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE CURE STAR…Madis House Inc — $5,000 · HealthMadis House I…JACK QUEHL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthJACK QUEHL FO…MAY WE HELP INC — $5,000 · HealthMAY WE HELP I…Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc — $5,000 · HealthMercy Neighbo…CISE — $30,000 · ReligionCISELITTLE FORK FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS — $10,000 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 · Education
Other$169,000Human Services$65,000Health$40,000Religion$30,000Crime & Legal$15,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Education$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIT MOVEMENT — $55,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetCISE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE FORK FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetADEC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadis House Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAMASCUS INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOSPREY VILLAGE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH26.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Tql Foundation Inc · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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