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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
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$21MHealth$15MPhilanthropy$14MCommunity Improvement$11MScience & Tech$1.4MHuman Services$1.4MSocial Science$605kArts & Culture$455kOther$0
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND$10,000
ILITCH CHARITIES INC$10,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
KADIMA$5,000
ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION$5,000
CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION$2,500
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$1,500
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY$500
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$250
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETE'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $65k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $250 → 5%CHALLENGED ATHLETE'S FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $15k → 8%THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETE'S FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $13k → 17%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 21%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $500 → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $5k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $5k → 8%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $234 → 21%JARC: $21k → 8%HEART 2 HART DETROIT: $750 → 8%HEART 2 HART DETROIT: $750 → 8%JARC: $500 → 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

AK
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 61 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 56 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
104

Total granted

$36M
$17M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

62%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • N
    NFX
    4× · 2018–2021 · $4.5M · revenue +64% · 43% of their budget
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.9M · revenue +25%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2020 · $1.8M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $7.5M · revenue -42%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.4M · revenue +45%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +43%
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
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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2
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health
3
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
4
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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5
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
11
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; the most unlike its peers is The Saarinen Foundation. 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

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 177 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/114
Grantees still filing
80/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,500,250 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYM-1 RAIL: $2,750,000 · OtherM-1 RAILWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,155,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,896,725 · OtherBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1,252,445 · OtherRECOMBINETICS INC: $1,194,785 · OtherBEAUMONT FOUNDATION: $900,000 · Other+97 more: $8,159,165 · Other+97 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $13,338,531 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FO…+13 more: $82,000 · PhilanthropyNFX: $4,482,574 · HealthNFXTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,442,337 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S H…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPI…CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $630,449 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR…Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc: $620,825 · HealthSchepens Eye Res…+25 more: $671,801 · Health+25 moreCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $3,294,280 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUC…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,906,763 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS …DUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,775,396 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSIT…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,215,825 · EducationWASHINGTON UNI…+8 more: $256,371 · EducationWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $7,500,000 · Community ImprovementWayne-Metrop…+2 more: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $325,000 · Human ServicesFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesJARC: $21,586 · Human Services+8 more: $45,984 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $250,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$25,808,370Philanthropy$13,420,531Health$9,847,986Education$8,448,635Community Improvement$7,520,000Human Services$490,070Housing & Shelter$255,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $13,338,531 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $7,500,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNFX: $4,482,574 over 4y, 43% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $3,294,280 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetM-1 RAIL: $2,750,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,442,337 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,906,763 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,775,396 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,215,825 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $630,449 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $605,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $325,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $297,308 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians: $119,621 over 2y, 25% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $105,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $90,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $65,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $58,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetWORLD CRANIOFACIAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetSHAREWELL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSKY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAGE BIONETWORKS: $41,999 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONIA: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJARC: $21,586 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $20,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILITCH CHARITIES INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DOVE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMichigan Fitness Association: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc ↗
  • Who funds NFX ↗
  • Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds M-1 RAIL ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians ↗

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 Gilbert Family Fo…Community Foundation …The Kresge FoundationDTE Energy FoundationHarold and Penny B Bl…The Eugene Applebaum …United Jewish Foundat…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Edward C and Linda Dr…The Skillman Foundati…Michigan Health Endow…Jk Farber Family Foun…
The Gilbert Family FoundationMI36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Gilbert Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gilbert Family Foundation 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 177 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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