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Gill Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+14 grants · $7.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION | $2,025,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $1,175,000 |
| MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA | $632,500 |
| PFLAG INC | $575,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS | $480,000 |
| GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC | $460,000 |
| CENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC | $435,000 |
| THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER | $400,000 |
| WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC | $350,000 |
| THIRD WAY INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC | $250,000 |
| LEXINGTON OBSERVER INC | $250,000 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $250,000 |
| THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $200,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +161%- MMMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +21%
NEO Philanthropy Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FFFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -100% · 39% of their budget
- AFALI FORNEY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +71%
- SASALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPone grant, 2020 · $175k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
The mission of the center for legal inclusiveness (cli) is to advance diversity in the legal profession by actively educating and supporting private and public sector legal organizations in their individual campaigns to create cultures of…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
To engage, empower, enrich, and advance the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community of colorado.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom for All Americans Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
219 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 219 of the 246 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds The GenderCool Project ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PFLAG ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds Equality Ohio Education Fund ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MINDSPARK LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Colorado Succeeds ↗
- Who funds ONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BELL POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Center for Responsible Lending ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CIVIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Brett Family Foundation · Merle Chambers Fund · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gill Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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