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Gill 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.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$508kArts & Culture$170kHousing & Shelter$136kRecreation & Sports$115kYouth Development$59kMembership Benefit$10kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$50,000
HIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM$50,000
SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE$2,000
INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART$1,500
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND$1,000
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 (FY17–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 9%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $41k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $7k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $6k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $2k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $2k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $1k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $1k → 15%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 8 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $223k · revenue +26%
  • SC
    Sigma Chi Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $190k · revenue +13%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $168k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TS
    Trojan Sig Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +140%
  • WE
    West End School Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • BU
    BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +3%
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
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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2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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6
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
7
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
8
La Salle University

See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…

Education
9
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
10
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
11
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Louisville Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is West End School Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $223,300 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYSigma Chi Foundation: $190,000 · EducationSigma Chi Foundation+4 more: $21,500 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $185,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL: $75,000 · OtherST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOLSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS: $168,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF ARCHITE…AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureHIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC: $135,500 · Housing & ShelterHIGH SPIRIT CO…CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $59,100 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesTrojan Sig Foundation: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$434,800Other$260,000Arts & Culture$174,500Housing & Shelter$135,500Human Services$59,350Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $223,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $190,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS: $168,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetHIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC: $135,500 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $59,100 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetWest End School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $250 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.

American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 54%
  • High Spirit Community Farm Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 14 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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