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Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable 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.

$25k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
14
Organizations funded FY2022
79%
First-time grantees FY2022
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100% of Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $25k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’20
4
’21
7
’22
4
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
8
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 79% of the organizations Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202214$25k79%
FY202114$22k64%
FY20209$10kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$202kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kHealth$10kInternational$9kReligion$5kHuman Services$3kEducation$3kAnimals$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Research Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars: $300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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About Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation

How much does Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation give?
Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $25,012 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (81%), Public Safety & Disaster (5%), Health (4%).
Who are Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($4k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($3k), United States Fund for Unicef ($3k).
Does Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation based?
Charles E and Harriet Gillman Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

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 32 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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