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The Kennenth and Joan Gosliner Foundation at a glance

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The Kennenth and Joan Gosliner 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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$225kEducation$171kHuman Services$144kArts & Culture$45kHealth$28kFood & Nutrition$14kCivil Rights$11kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hebrew Free Loan$5,000
American Red Cross$5,000
Vivalon$5,000
Marin History Museum$5,000
Congregation Rodef Sholom$4,400
Reproductive Freedom for All$4,000
RITTER HOUSE$2,000
SF Marin Food Bank$2,000
KQED$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Marin Jewish Community Center$2,000
Tech for Youth$2,000
Marin Humane Society$1,500
Welcome Home$1,000
San Rafael Library Foundation$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Jewish Family and Childrens Service: $5k → 10%Jewish Family and Childrens Service: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS' SERVICES: $5k → 10%Jewish Family and Childrens Service: $5k → 10%Jewish Family and Childrens Service: $5k → 10%Jewish Family and Childrens Service: $4k → 10%Jewish Family and Childrens Service: $3k → 10%Reproductive Freedom for All: $4k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS' SERVICES: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS' SERVICES: $500 → 10%Hospice by the Bay: $2k → 8%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $1k → 8%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $1k → 8%By the Bay Health: $1k → 8%By the Bay Health: $1k → 8%Vivalon: $55k → 8%Vivalon: $12k → 8%Vivalon: $9k → 8%Whistlestop: $8k → 8%American Red Cross: $5k → 8%Vivalon: $5k → 8%Vivalon: $5k → 8%Whistlestop: $3k → 8%RITTER HOUSE: $2k → 8%Casa De Angeles Fndn: $500 → 8%RITTER HOUSE: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CT
CA
DC
HI
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$632k · 27 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
35

Total granted

$632k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+43%

Still filing today

48%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHealthPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • V
    Vivalon
    7× · 2019–2025 · $96k · revenue +50%
  • SG
    SHIFTING GEARS USA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +44%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • 1F
    1199 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
3
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
5
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
8
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
9
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
10
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
11
Marin General Hospital

To be the destination for health and healing in the north bay.

Health
12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services; the most unlike its peers is Casa de Angeles Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Congregation Rodef Sholom: $222,100 · OtherCongregation Rodef SholomBeyond Differences: $71,100 · OtherBeyond DifferencesMarin Co Office of Education: $50,000 · OtherMarin Co Office of EducationTranscendance Theater: $17,000 · Other+53 more: $129,300 · Other+53 moreVivalon: $95,800 · Human ServicesVivalonJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $35,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHIL…BY THE BAY HEALTH: $6,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $6,750 · Human ServicesSHIFTING GEARS USA: $35,000 · Education10000 DEGREES: $5,500 · EducationMarin Theatre Company: $12,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $8,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13,000 · HealthSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 · Crime & LegalHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $9,000 · Public Benefit
Other$489,500Human Services$148,550Education$40,500Arts & Culture$28,000Health$13,000Crime & Legal$10,500Public Benefit$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVivalon: $95,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBeyond Differences: $71,100 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSHIFTING GEARS USA: $35,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $14,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Theatre Company: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarin History Museum: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBY THE BAY HEALTH: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRITTER CENTER: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa de Angeles Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Vivalon ↗
  • Who funds Beyond Differences ↗
  • Who funds SHIFTING GEARS USA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Marin Theatre Company ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Marin History Museum ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds BY THE BAY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Hobsonlucas Family Fo…Charles & Barbara Goo…Cerity Partners Found…Leonard & Beryl Buck …Silicon Valley Commun…McNabb FoundationHarbor Point Charitab…The Fred Gellert Fami…Koret Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Charles & Barbara Goodman Foundation · Cerity Partners Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Harbor Point Charitable Foundation · The Fred Gellert Family Foundation · Koret Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kennenth and Joan Gosliner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kennenth and Joan Gosliner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Kennenth and Joan Gosliner Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 76 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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