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Gilbane Family Foundation Inc

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.

$232k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

88% of Gilbane Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Rhode Island Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Philanthropy$326kHealth$9kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$5kHuman Services$5kCivil Rights$2kReligion$1kRecreation & Sports$500
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$200,000
NEXT STEP FUND$4,500
BROWN UNIVERSITY$4,400
REFOCUS INC$4,000
BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS$2,650
ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE US MILITARY ACADEMY$2,500
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK$2,000
FEEDING AMERICA$2,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$2,000
CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART$1,200
MARCH OF DIMES INC$1,030
SWIM ACROSS AMERICA$1,000
FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND$1,000
HOP ON A CURE$1,000
EDESIA$500
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEXT STEP FUND: $5k → 8%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

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MN
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NY
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RI
CA
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NC
GA
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 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.

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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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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
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Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
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Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
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
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Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels of Ri Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wasatch Backcountry Alliance. 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

20 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. 20 of the 24 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $325,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyREFOCUS INC: $4,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $2,650 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,030 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,400 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $2,000 · Community ImprovementTHE NEXT STEP FUND INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesCONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART: $1,200 · OtherHOP ON A CURE: $1,000 · OtherSTAND WITH ME: $500 · OtherBARRINGTON HIGH SCHOOL BOYS HOCKEY INC: $250 · OtherMake the Road New York: $2,000 · OtherTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,000 · OtherWASATCH BACKCOUNTRY ALLIANCE: $250 · Other+4 more: $550 · OtherFeeding America: $2,000 · Food & NutritionEDESIA INC: $500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC: $200 · Food & NutritionASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $2,500 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$326,000Health$7,780Community Improvement$6,400Human Services$4,500Other$6,750Food & Nutrition$2,700Public Benefit$2,500

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 budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP FUND INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFOCUS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $2,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDESIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH BACKCOUNTRY ALLIANCE: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Gordon School: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RI INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan University: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT MELANOMA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOW SCHOOL: $100 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 Gilbane Family Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Gilbane Family FoundationRI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gilbane Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Gilbane Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilbane Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Next Step Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Impact Melanoma Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gilbane Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gilbane Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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