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Frank and Mary Gill Foundation at a glance

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Frank and Mary Gill 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.

$198k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$671kHealth$189kInternational$146kPublic Safety & Disaster$95kYouth Development$82kArts & Culture$32kReligion$9kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFRICAN MISSION HEALTHCARE$60,000
PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDAT$50,000
OREGON HEALTH SCIENCE UNIV FND$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND$8,000
DENTAL FOUNDATION OF OREGON$5,000
PUBLIC SAFETY CHAPLAINCY$5,000
CARES NORTHWEST$4,000
RIVERDALE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$4,000
TRANSITIONAL YOUTH$3,000
SEVA FOUNDATION$2,000
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$1,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$1,000
MERCY HOME$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $18k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OR
SD
CA
UT
DC
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$940k · 20 repeat orgs$328k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
17

Total granted

$940k
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+13%

Still filing today

55%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    4× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +103%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +38%
  • OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • T
    TOOLS4TROOPS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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3
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
4
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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5
Providence Portland Medical Foundation

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
6
Oregon Medical Association

The mission of the oma is to speak as the unified voice of medicine in oregon; advocate for a sustainable, equitable, and accessible healthcare environment; and energize physicians and physician assistants by building and supporting their…

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7
University of Oregon Foundation

The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center

Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…

Health
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
12
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Seattle Chapter

Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence St Vincent Medical Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Braking Cycles. 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

26 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. 26 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL: $245,000 · OtherST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOLDE LA SALLE N CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $115,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE N CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLOREGON HEALTH SCIENCE UNIV FND: $100,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH SCIENCE UNIV FNDPublic Safety Chaplaincy Inc: $65,000 · OtherPublic Safety Chaplaincy IncPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDAT: $55,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDAT+21 more: $105,500 · Other+21 moreAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $125,000 · InternationalAfrican Missi…SEVA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · InternationalSEVA FOUNDATI…+3 more: $6,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $29,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $22,000 · Arts & CultureWAVERLEY HISTORIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $8,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,200 · EducationTHE CANNON BEACH ACADEMY: $1,000 · Education
Other$935,500International$146,500Youth Development$70,000Human Services$36,500Health$29,000Arts & Culture$27,000Education$23,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $125,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Safety Chaplaincy Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $29,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBraking Cycles: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAHA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS COURSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANNON BEACH ACADEMY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Maybelle Clark Macdon…Juan Young TrustWrg FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…Hillman Family Founda…M J Murdock Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR23.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · Wrg Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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 Frank and Mary Gill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank and Mary Gill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Aha Foundation Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • The Cannon Beach Academy: 10% of income from government
  • University of Portland: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
  • Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 44 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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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home