· Private foundation
The Walter J Gatti Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The Walter J Gatti Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Brevard Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Walter J Gatti Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $33k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k9 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $19,054 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE BAHAMAS RELIEF | $6,500 |
| HEALTH FIRST FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF BREVARD INC | $1,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER | $1,000 |
| BREVARD COUNTY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE | $750 |
| HIGH COUNTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF POLICE | $500 |
| BANNER ELK VOLUNTEER FIRE RESCUE INC | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $616k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $499k · revenue +90%- TATHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +85%
- THThe High Country Charitable Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- TWTHE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -13%
- ASAMERICAN STUDIES CENTERone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +0%
- WFWISHES FOR OUR HEROESone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR BREVARD INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND ↗
- Who funds THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The High Country Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BREVARD WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Serene Harbor Inc ↗
- Who funds AISC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds RESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Walter J Gatti Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walter J Gatti Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- South Brevard Women's Center Inc: 45% of income from government
- Serene Harbor Inc: 31% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 5% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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