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Gailliot Family Foundation at a glance

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Gailliot 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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$41k
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.

Social Science$526kEducation$357kArts & Culture$276kCivil Rights$198kHealth$135kReligion$30kHuman Services$22kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$41,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WQED MULTIMEDIA$41,000
SCONSET TRUST INC$10,000
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 (FY19–22, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMPUTER REACH: $5k → 11%THE SAMARITAN WOMEN: $10k → 19%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $5k → 11%EVOLVE COACHING: $2k → 11%EARTHEN VESSELS OUTREACH: $3k → 11%EARTHEN VESSELS OUTREACH: $3k → 11%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$1.4M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+60%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SS
    SHADY SIDE ACADEMY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $250k · revenue +29%
  • AI
    Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
    7× · 2017–2023 · $198k · revenue +3%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CU
    CARLOW UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +60%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR SURVIVOR CARE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +8%
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
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
3
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
4
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
5
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Inc

The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

The mission of carnegie library of pittsburgh is to foster literacy, enable exploration, and create connections with all our neighbors. see full description in schedule o.

Education
7
Carnegie Institute

To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.

Arts & Culture
8
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
9
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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10
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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11
Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

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12
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latrobe Area Hospital Charitable Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR NEWMAN STUDIES: $525,607 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR NEWMAN STUDIESUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE: $105,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE+7 more: $67,000 · Other+7 moreSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $250,000 · EducationSHADY SIDE ACADEMYCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERSITY+1 more: $2,000 · EducationWQED MULTIMEDIA: $160,000 · Arts & CultureWQED MULTIMEDIACHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $70,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM O…PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH FESTIVAL…PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $198,000 · Civil RightsActon Institut…INSTITUTE FOR SURVIVOR CARE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesEARTHEN VESSELS OUTREACH: $5,180 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $5,000 · Human ServicesComputer Reach: $5,000 · Human ServicesEVOLVE COACHING INC: $2,000 · Human Services'SCONSET TRUST INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCATO INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Public BenefitACHIEVA: $5,000 · Health
Other$697,607Education$352,000Arts & Culture$268,500Civil Rights$198,000Human Services$27,180Environment$10,000Public Benefit$5,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $198,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA: $160,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $70,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA: $25,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $20,000 over 2y, 93% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SURVIVOR CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHEN VESSELS OUTREACH: $5,180 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetComputer Reach: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAUTUMN HOUSE PRESS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEVOLVE COACHING INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC: $1,000 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.

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 Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…The Heinz EndowmentsSnee-Reinhardt Charit…The Grable FoundationMcCune Foundation Pnc…Allegheny FoundationThe Fine FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Richard King Mellon F…Eqt FoundationJ B Finley Charitable…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA26.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Grable Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Allegheny Foundation · The Fine Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · J B Finley Charitable Trust

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 Gailliot Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gailliot Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–40%
    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 27 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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