· Private foundation
John G & Jean R Gosnell 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $825k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC | $70,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| IDENTITY | $55,000 |
| CENTRONIA | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK TRUST | $50,000 |
| NATURE FORWARD FKA AUDUBON NATURALIST SOCIETY OF THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC STAT | $45,000 |
| SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $40,000 |
| ALICE FERGUSON FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| IDENTITY | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL | $40,000 |
| EDUCARE DC | $40,000 |
| THE LITERACY LAB | $40,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE | $40,000 |
| ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $677k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- IIIDENTITY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $495k · revenue +255%
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +244%
- CCCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +198%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHINGone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -75%
- LHLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +23%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -81%
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 establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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…
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Leaders Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Leu Gardens 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 35 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 95 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 IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRONIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds CITY BLOSSOMS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GENERATION HOPE ↗
- Who funds Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE DC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds RARE Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEU GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Peace of Mind Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds MERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Hattie M Strong Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial 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 John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Vermont Woodlands Association — 21% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 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.