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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$1.5MEducation$1.4MHealth$983kHuman Services$677kYouth Development$575kArts & Culture$483kCommunity Improvement$150kRecreation & Sports$80kFood & Nutrition$68kOther$1.2M
02FY2025 · 36 grants

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
$30,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 10%BATTERED WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10k → 17%EDUCARE DC: $40k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $40k → 14%REACH EDUCATION INC: $50k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $40k → 14%REACH INC: $30k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $25k → 14%CENTRO NIA: $50k → 14%CENTRONA: $50k → 14%CENTRONA: $50k → 14%CENTRONIA: $50k → 14%CENTRONIA: $50k → 14%CENTRONA: $40k → 14%CENTRONIA: $30k → 14%CENTRONIA: $20k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $20k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $30k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $20k → 14%DC DIAPER BANK: $10k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $9k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 48 repeat orgs$551k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
41

Total granted

$6.5M
$511k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+19%

Still filing today

96%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • II
    IDENTITY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $495k · revenue +255%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +244%
  • CC
    CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -75%
  • LH
    LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one 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.

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
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
The George Washington University

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…

Education
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Children's Hospital

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…

Health
5
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

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…

7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Cdp North America Inc

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…

Environment
9
Association of Washington Cities

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…

10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
11
American Council On Education

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…

Education
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Elementary Literacy TutoringDomestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,480

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

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/85
Grantees still filing
58/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $352,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY …Nature Forward — $255,000 · EnvironmentNature ForwardNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC — $252,200 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARK TRUST INCANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $210,000 · EnvironmentANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOC…Friends of Acadia — $190,000 · EnvironmentFriends of AcadiaAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc — $150,000 · EnvironmentAlice Ferguson Foundati…+5 more — $53,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC — $290,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS…THE LITERACY LAB — $265,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LABASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationASHLEY HALL FOUNDATIONJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $185,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSI…GENERATION HOPE — $175,000 · EducationGENERATION HOPEPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE — $90,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE O…APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION — $55,000 · EducationCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $50,000 · Education+4 more — $75,000 · Education+4 moreNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $385,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONDC SCORES — $130,000 · OtherDC SCORESFRIENDS OF LEU GARDENS INC — $95,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF LEU GARDENS I…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $90,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF …Peace of Mind Inc — $85,000 · OtherPeace of Mind IncCOMMUNITY OF HOPE — $110,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY OF HOPEKIDS ON POINT INC — $60,000 · OtherMERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC — $58,000 · Other+39 more — $487,750 · Other+39 moreIDENTITY INC — $495,000 · HealthIDENTITY INCPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $135,000 · HealthPARKINSON ASSOC…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $125,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…RARE Hope Inc — $100,000 · HealthRARE Hope IncLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Health+5 more — $77,500 · Health+5 moreCENTRONIA — $340,000 · Human ServicesCENTRONIAEDUCARE DC — $145,000 · Human ServicesEDUCARE DCREACH EDUCATION INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesREACH EDUC…GREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $79,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC…+3 more — $32,500 · Human ServicesCITY BLOSSOMS INC — $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentCITY BLOS…LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentLATIN AME…HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS …SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $202,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $135,000 · Arts & CultureMARINE DISCOVERY CENTER — $120,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$1,462,700Education$1,385,000Other$1,500,750Health$982,500Human Services$676,500Youth Development$575,000Arts & Culture$482,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIDENTITY INC — $495,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $385,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $352,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRONIA — $340,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC — $290,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $265,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNature Forward — $255,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCITY BLOSSOMS INC — $255,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC — $252,200 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $210,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $202,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $190,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $185,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER — $175,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGENERATION HOPE — $175,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEDUCARE DC — $145,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $145,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $135,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDC SCORES — $130,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE DISCOVERY CENTER — $120,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE — $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRARE Hope Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEU GARDENS INC — $95,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace of Mind Inc — $85,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetREACH EDUCATION INC — $80,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $79,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC — $58,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNONPROFIT MONTGOMERY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDARKNESS TO LIGHT INC — $20,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDURHAM DREAMS YOUTH MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC38.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 15%
  • National Park Trust Inc51% of income from government
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc34% of income from government
  • Nature Forward32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc27% of income from government
  • Vermont Woodlands Association21% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Sultana Education Foundation Inc8% of income from government
  • Identity Inc7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 95 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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