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The Mr and Mrs Gqb Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$289k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$171k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$372kEducation$99kCommunity Improvement$26kRecreation & Sports$24kHealth$21kInternational$11kPhilanthropy$6kPublic Benefit$500
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $221k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION BIBLE CHURCH$171,000
PACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
THE BROWERY MISSION$20,000
DISCOVERY CUBE ORANGE COUNTY$14,000
JOHN TRACY CLINIC$6,720
HOLY FAITH FELLOWSHIP$5,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$5,000
KUKIO HOOMANA FUND$5,000
REACHING BEYOND OURSELVES$5,000
GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH$3,000
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$2,000
THE LITTLE LIGHT AFRICA$1,000
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN$1,000
ORANGE COUNTY COMM FOUNDATION$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $7k → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $7k → 14%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$516k · 10 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$516k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+127%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PC
    PACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +34%
  • JT
    JOHN TRACY CLINIC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +15%
  • RB
    Reaching Beyond Ourselves
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +469%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF GOLF INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +127%
  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • AQ
    Augies Quest to Cure ALS Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%
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
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Saint Mary's College of California

Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…

Education
6
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
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
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
9
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
10
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
11
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
12
Los Angeles Mission College Foundation

The specific purpose for which the los angeles mission college foundation has been established is to advance the college's educational and cultural goals.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Augies Quest to Cure Als Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSION BIBLE CHURCH: $294,000 · OtherMISSION BIBLE CHURCHTHE BROWERY MISSION: $65,450 · OtherTHE BROWERY MISSIONDISCOVERY CUBE ORANGE COUNTY: $26,000 · OtherDISCOVERY CUBE ORANGE COUNTYFRIENDS OF GOLF INC: $13,800 · Other+4 more: $14,500 · OtherPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $85,000 · EducationPACIFICA CHRISTIAN H…Southern Methodist University: $5,000 · EducationNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationJOHN TRACY CLINIC: $13,720 · Human ServicesReaching Beyond Ourselves: $10,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $5,000 · HealthNEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC: $2,000 · HealthKUKIO HOOMANA FUND: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$413,750Education$99,000Human Services$13,720International$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Health$7,000Philanthropy$6,000

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 budgetPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $85,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOHN TRACY CLINIC: $13,720 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetReaching Beyond Ourselves: $10,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUKIO HOOMANA FUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mr and Mrs Gqb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mr and Mrs Gqb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Mr and Mrs Gqb Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Mr and Mrs Gqb 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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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