· Private foundation
Bob and Eileen Gilman Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $30,500 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $25,000 |
| Project EATS | $20,000 |
| Columbia Riverkeeper | $10,000 |
| One Spirit Learning Alliance | $10,000 |
| Living Arts Alliance | $5,000 |
| Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc | $5,000 |
| Grow Portland | $5,000 |
| LongHouse Reserve | $3,500 |
| Sag Harbor Partnership Inc | $3,000 |
| Edge and Center Inc | $2,500 |
| Grown in Haiti Inc | $2,000 |
| Hamptons Community Outreach | $1,500 |
| Mas House & BIPOC Art Studio | $1,500 |
| Peconic Land Trust Inc | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GLGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +182%
- PEPROJECT EATS INC4× · 2019–2025 · $53k · revenue +3%
- CICULTURESEED INC2× · 2019–2022 · $26k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- HHHealing Hearts Rescue and Rehabone grant, 2022 · $8k
- HFHarmony Fund Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +1%
- SDSoi Dog Foundationone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Rescue farmed animals and inspire people to embrace a plant-based lifestyle.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Eats Inc and the most unlike its peers is Living Arts Alliance. 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.
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 19 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT EATS INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURESEED INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ONE SPIRIT LEARNING ALLIANCE LTD ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds Columbia Riverkeeper ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Living Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds EDGE AND CENTER INC THE CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Harmony Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GROW PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds MA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds HAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND EQUINE OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEAD ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR THE EAST END INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Bob and Eileen Gilman Family 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.
- Grow Portland — 36% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
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.
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