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Gillam 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $14,409 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $10,000 |
| ARCTIC REC CENTER | $2,390 |
| COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $500 |
| WORLD HEALTH DENTAL | $500 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA | $500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA | $100 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $50 |
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 (FY21–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CSCatholic Social Services4× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +89%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +14%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAone grant, 2022 · $116k
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +24%- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -79%
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.
The mission of the alaska native health board is to promote the spiritual, physical, mental, social, and cultural well-being and pride of alaska native people.
Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…
The Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association (AHHA) is a non-profit trade association representing more than 65 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and other healthcare partners.Our members are distributed across…
Icc alaska exists as the unified voice and collective spirit of alaskan inuit, to promote, protect and advance inuit culture and society.
Since 1971, the northern alaska environmental center has promoted environmental conservation and sustainable resource stewardship in interior and arctic alaska through education and advocacy.
Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…
We engage, empower, and elect alaskans to stand up for our clean air and water, healthy communities, and a strong democracy.
Provide training and information to housing authority employees and representatives throughout the state of alaska.
To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.
SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hospice of Homer. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 49 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
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 Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KENAI RIVER SPORTFISHING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUNEAU COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD ↗
- Who funds Alaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AWARE Inc ↗
- Who funds ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Homer ↗
- Who funds THE BREAD LINE 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 Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Jim and Vicki Jansen Foundation · Global Credit Union Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Atwood Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Rick and Cyndie Fox Family Foundation
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 Gillam 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.
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.