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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 FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$821k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$75k70%
FY20247$70k29%
FY20236$55k50%
FY20228$55k63%
FY20213$35k100%
FY20204$32k75%
FY20193$13kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lit Movement$55,00046%
Archbishop McNicholas High School$30,0004n/a
Cise$30,00020%
St Xavier High School Inc$27,0004n/a
The Cure Starts Now Inc$20,00010%
Little Fork Family Advocacy Center Inc$15,000111%
Dominican Sisters of Peace Inc$15,0001n/a
Childhood Food Solutions$10,00013%
Adec Inc$10,00010%
Diocese of Charleston$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lit Movement$55,00046%
Archbishop McNicholas High School$30,0004n/a
Cise$30,00020%
St Xavier High School Inc$27,0004n/a
The Cure Starts Now Inc$20,00010%
Little Fork Family Advocacy Center Inc$15,000111%
Dominican Sisters of Peace Inc$15,0001n/a
Childhood Food Solutions$10,00013%
Adec Inc$10,00010%
Diocese of Charleston$5,0001n/a
Madis House Inc$5,00011%
College Mentors for Kids Inc$5,00010%
Operation Give Back$5,00010%
Jack Quehl Foundation$5,0001n/a
Freestore Foodbank Inc$5,00010%
May We Help Inc$5,0001n/a
Home Missioners of America$5,0001n/a
Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc$5,00010%
Damascus Inc$4,50020%
Osprey Village Inc$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCollege Mentors for Kids Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Give Back: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFreestore Foodbank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDamascus Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOsprey Village Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 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

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.

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About The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family

How much does The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family give?
The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family reported 10 grants totaling $75,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Religion (27%), Health (19%).
Who are The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lit Movement ($55k), Archbishop McNicholas High School ($30k), Cise ($30k).
Does The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family based?
The James R and Catherine M Gaunt Family is based in OH.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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