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Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fund at a glance

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Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$132kEnvironment$3k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$286k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FULTON MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,800
SUNY BROCKPORT$1,800
SUNY POLYTECH INSTITUTE$1,800
NORWICH UNIVERSITY$1,800
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY$1,500
CLARKSON UNIVERSITY$1,000
SUNY ONEONTA$500
ALFRED UNIVERSITY$500
ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$500
SUNY CORTLAND$500
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$500
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY$500
ALFRED STATE COLLEGE$500
SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE$500
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FULTON MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 13%SUNY ONEONTA: $500 → 13%SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: $500 → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $2k → 14%SUNY CORTLAND: $500 → 15%SUNY POLYTECH INSTITUTE: $2k → 16%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 18%ALFRED STATE COLLEGE: $500 → 19%BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $500 → 20%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%SUNY BROCKPORT: $2k → 14%ALFRED UNIVERSITY: $500 → 19%ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $500 → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$122k · 36 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
17

Total granted

$122k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-3%

Still filing today

33%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • SU
    SIENA UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +35%
  • LU
    LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MC
    MARIA COLLEGE OF ALBANY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +53%
  • UA
    UMASS AMHERST
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
3
Franklin University

Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…

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4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…

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10
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Daemen University

Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. 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

21 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. 21 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FULTON MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $14,400 · OtherFULTON MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGEUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $8,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY AT ALBANYBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $5,550 · OtherBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITYSUNY CORTLAND: $4,150 · OtherSUNY BROCKPORT: $3,940 · OtherSUNY OSWEGO: $3,500 · OtherSTONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $3,390 · OtherALFRED STATE COLLEGE: $3,300 · OtherSUNY NEW PALTZ: $3,250 · OtherSUNY ONEONTA: $2,950 · Other+26 more: $31,290 · Other+26 moreRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $9,850 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteSIENA UNIVERSITY: $7,740 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITYLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $4,650 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INCRochester Institute of Technology: $4,450 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $4,350 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYMARIST UNIVERSITY: $3,250 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITYALFRED UNIVERSITY: $2,950 · EducationALFRED UNIVERSITYCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $2,700 · EducationUTICA UNIVERSITY: $2,350 · EducationHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $2,000 · EducationNorwich University: $1,800 · Education+8 more: $5,000 · Education+8 more
Other$83,820Education$51,090

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $9,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $7,740 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $4,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $4,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $4,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALFRED UNIVERSITY: $2,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $2,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWBURY COLLEGE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAZENOVIA COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Saint Mary College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALFRED UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds Norwich University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗

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.

Gazin Norbert L Educa…Jessie H Baker Educat…JM McDonald Foundatio…Central New York Comm…Evelyn E Stempfle Sch…Louis Henry Gross Spo…Community Foundation …Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960OH15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Evelyn E Stempfle Scholarship · Louis Henry Gross Sponsorship Fdn · Community Foundation of Orange and Sulli · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Norwich University: 14% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of 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 · 0–15%
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.

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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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