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Gill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
91
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$19MEducation$9.6MPhilanthropy$7.1MCrime & Legal$3.9MPublic Benefit$2.6MArts & Culture$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.6MYouth Development$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k42 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $207k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+14 grants · $7.8M
$25,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$194M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION$250,000
GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC$250,000
LEXINGTON OBSERVER INC$250,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC$250,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$200,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VALLEY OF THE SUN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $150k → 17%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $5k → 20%PROMO FUND: $590 → 21%THE SAVINGS COLLABORATIVE: $75k → 6%THE GENDERCOOL PROJECT: $500k → 8%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $100k → 17%PROMO FUND: $210 → 21%THE GENDERCOOL PROJECT: $200k → 8%THE GENDERCOOL PROJECT: $200k → 8%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $75k → 17%THE GENDERCOOL PROJECT: $150k → 8%THE GENDERCOOL PROJECT: $75k → 8%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $30k → 17%URBAN PEAK COLORADO SPRINGS: $60 → 9%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $100 → 17%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $1k → 7%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $100k → 14%MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $1k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $1k → 7%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $1k → 12%COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE: $200 → 12%COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE: $50 → 12%SO ALL MAY EAT INC: $3k → 12%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $150k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $75k → 17%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $50 → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $50 → 12%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
ME
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 133 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

133
86

Total granted

$42M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+24%

Still filing today

88%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +181%
  • MM
    MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +21%
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FF
    FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -100% · 39% of their budget
  • AF
    ALI FORNEY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +71%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $175k
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
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
3
Aia Colorado

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…

—
4
Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence

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…

Civil Rights
5
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
6
Colorado Bar Association

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,…

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7
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
8
Philanthropy Colorado

Philanthropy colorado is a nonprofit membership association for grantmakers throughout the state. its mission is strengthen colorado communities by bringing people, information and resources together.

Philanthropy
9
Education Commission of the States

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…

Education
10
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
11
Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgend Community Center of Colorado

To engage, empower, enrich, and advance the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community of colorado.

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12
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom for All Americans Education Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

219 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. 219 of the 246 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
216/219
Grantees still filing
141/219
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS: $2,435,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATI…FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND: $2,275,747 · OtherFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUNDOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $2,025,000 · OtherOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATIONGLAAD INC: $1,175,000 · OtherGLAAD INCPFLAG: $990,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $800,000 · OtherWHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC: $800,000 · OtherPUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $750,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $775,450 · Other+80 more: $7,559,453 · Other+80 moreGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $3,424,000 · Civil RightsGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDE…CENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC: $1,235,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INCMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT: $1,030,000 · Civil RightsMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECTADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $960,086 · Civil RightsADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY ED…Equality Ohio Education Fund: $890,000 · Civil RightsEquality Ohio Education FundEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $835,734 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTETHIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $800,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY INSTITUTEONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $500,875 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 · Civil Rights+31 more: $4,823,575 · Civil Rights+31 moreMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $3,152,500 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR …THE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $1,414,100 · EducationTHE JEFFERSON FOUN…FAMILY EQUALITY: $910,025 · EducationFAMILY EQUALITYMINDSPARK LEARNING: $603,000 · EducationMINDSPARK LEARNINGColorado Succeeds: $525,000 · EducationColorado SucceedsTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $410,000 · EducationUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $370,000 · EducationFAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND: $350,000 · Education+15 more: $1,169,700 · Education+15 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,816,500 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc: $300,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation: $157,100 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $150,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $303,500 · PhilanthropyNEO Philanthropy Inc: $3,100,250 · Public BenefitTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $250,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $101,350 · Public BenefitThe GenderCool Project: $1,125,000 · Human ServicesLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc: $355,100 · Human ServicesIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $325,000 · Human ServicesThe Savings Collaborative: $75,000 · Human Services+10 more: $90,400 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON OBSERVER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO: $125,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $70,509 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY RADIO: $68,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND VALLEY PUBLIC RADIO COMPANY: $38,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $152,750 · Arts & Culture
Other$19,585,650Civil Rights$14,999,270Education$8,904,325Philanthropy$3,977,100Public Benefit$3,451,600Human Services$1,970,500Arts & Culture$1,079,759

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $3,424,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $3,152,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $3,100,250 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,816,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS: $2,435,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $1,414,100 over 4y, 32% of budgetCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC: $1,235,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetGLAAD INC: $1,175,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetThe GenderCool Project: $1,125,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT: $1,030,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetPFLAG: $990,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $960,086 over 5y, 20% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $910,025 over 5y, 11% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund: $890,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $835,734 over 5y, 16% of budgetWHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC: $800,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $800,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $775,450 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $750,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetMINDSPARK LEARNING: $603,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetColorado Succeeds: $525,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $500,875 over 5y, 15% of budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTHE BELL POLICY CENTER: $495,950 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetCenter for Responsible Lending: $460,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC: $450,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOLORADO CIVIC EDUCATION: $425,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $420,450 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $410,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC: $400,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $400,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLSEN INC: $370,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $370,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc: $355,100 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND: $350,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $325,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetColorado Times Recorder: $300,050 over 3y, 31% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEW WAYS MINISTRY INC: $290,100 over 3y, 16% of budgetCITIES FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT FUND INC: $290,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $275,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEXINGTON OBSERVER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Caring for Colorado F…Community Foundation …El Pomar FoundationThe Colorado TrustBrett Family Foundati…Merle Chambers FundEvelyn and Walter Haa…
The Colorado Health FoundationCO70.7× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
54report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gill 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 246 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home