Michigan · Private foundation
Gilbert Family 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.
- $45k
- Granted FY2022
- 9
- Grants FY2022
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2022
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 4
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 44% of the organizations Gilbert Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 9 | $45k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $22M | 51% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $10M | 51% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $8.5M | 56% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $6.9M | 55% |
| FY2017 | 52 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan State University | $7,500,250 | 5 | n/a |
| Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc | $7,500,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Nfx | $4,482,574 | 4 | 43% |
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $3,294,280 | 2 | 2% |
| M-1 Rail | $2,750,000 | 3 | 12% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $2,442,337 | 1 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,906,763 | 3 | 0% |
| Duke University | $1,775,396 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington University | $1,215,825 | 3 | 0% |
| Recombinetics Inc | $1,194,785 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 118 grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gilbert Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Gilbert Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Jk Farber Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gilbert Family Foundation
- How much does Gilbert Family Foundation give?
- Gilbert Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $44,750 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Gilbert Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (23%), Philanthropy (21%).
- Who are Gilbert Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Michigan State University ($7.5M), Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc ($7.5M), Nfx ($4.5M).
- Does Gilbert Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gilbert Family 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gilbert Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gilbert Family Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation.
- Where is Gilbert Family Foundation based?
- Gilbert Family Foundation is based in MI.
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