Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GIFFORDS
GIFFORDS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,741,296 to it, the largest being HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD ($3,320,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Giffords does
Mission
To address the issue of gun violence in communities across the country. Giffords works to affect legislation, shape the national dialogue and reduce gun violence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Building a strong national organization focused on engaging and growing a diverse national network of supporters and participating in an ongoing dialogue with the american public in order to reduce gun violence in our communities.
$7,187,352 spentof which $66,732 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,187,352.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.3M to $9.1M (+73%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of GIFFORDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $237k → $29k.
2 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence). These are real filings, and they are not money GIFFORDS raised.
From the IRS filings of GIFFORDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GIFFORDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GIFFORDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 95% · 2022 91% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
7% of GIFFORDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 26% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of GIFFORDS's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $355k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GIFFORDS has grown faster than half of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like GIFFORDS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence · exempt
- Giffords PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIFFORDS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIFFORDS?
- GIFFORDS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,741,296 to it, the largest being HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD ($3,320,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIFFORDS have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,741,296 in grants to GIFFORDS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIFFORDS?
- HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD is the largest funder on record, with $3,320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIFFORDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 35 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing