Alaska · Private foundation
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.
- $31k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 84%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $14,409
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 84% of the organizations Gillam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $31k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $153k | 84% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $308k | 85% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $46k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Alaska | $116,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Social Services | $115,087 | 4 | 0% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Covenant House Alaska | $44,975 | 4 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $17,030 | 1 | 0% |
| Kenai River Sportfishing Association | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc | $6,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Anchorage Economic Development Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Juneau Cooperative Christian Ministry | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southeast Alaska Independent Living | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gillam Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Gillam Foundation
- How much does Gillam Foundation give?
- Gillam Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $31,149 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gillam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (20%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Gillam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Alaska ($116k), Catholic Social Services ($115k), The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation ($50k).
- Does Gillam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gillam Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gillam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alaska Community Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation.
- Where is Gillam Foundation based?
- Gillam Foundation is based in AK.
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