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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.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$163kHuman Services$116kEnvironment$54kHousing & Shelter$50kHealth$37kCommunity Improvement$18kYouth Development$12kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $14k → 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $61k → 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $20k → 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $20k → 10%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$313k · 9 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
37

Total granted

$313k
$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+11%

Still filing today

33%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CS
    Catholic Social Services
    4× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +89%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +14%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA
    one grant, 2022 · $116k
  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -79%
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
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
3
Alaska Native Health Board

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.

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4
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

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…

Environment
5
Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association

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…

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6
Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska

Icc alaska exists as the unified voice and collective spirit of alaskan inuit, to promote, protect and advance inuit culture and society.

Arts & Culture
7
Northern Alaska Environmental Center

Since 1971, the northern alaska environmental center has promoted environmental conservation and sustainable resource stewardship in interior and arctic alaska through education and advocacy.

Environment
8
Alaska Childrens Alliance

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…

Crime & Legal
9
The Alaska Center

We engage, empower, and elect alaskans to stand up for our clean air and water, healthy communities, and a strong democracy.

Environment
10
Association of Alaska Housing Authorities

Provide training and information to housing authority employees and representatives throughout the state of alaska.

Housing & Shelter
11
Alaska Community Development Corporation

To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.

Community Improvement
12
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-Seacc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 49 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $116,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAIndividual grant recipient: $58,070 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $37,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $21,688 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $11,500 · Other+28 more: $67,884 · Other+28 moreCatholic Social Services: $115,087 · Human ServicesCatholic Social ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $44,975 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKATHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSER…+1 more: $1,200 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $17,030 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,690 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $800 · Health+3 more: $1,400 · HealthKENAI RIVER SPORTFISHING ASSOCIATION: $6,500 · Recreation & SportsAlaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $6,400 · Arts & CultureAlaska Theatre of Youth: $250 · Arts & CultureSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$327,142Human Services$160,062Environment$51,200Health$20,920Recreation & Sports$8,500Arts & Culture$6,650Housing & Shelter$5,000

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 budgetCatholic Social Services: $115,087 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $44,975 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $17,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENAI RIVER SPORTFISHING ASSOCIATION: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $6,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANCHORAGE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,690 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $1,485 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAWARE Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Homer: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREAD LINE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrisis Pregnancy Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlaska Version 3: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLet Every Woman Know - Alaska: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER JUNEAU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTIMS FOR JUSTICE: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Theatre of Youth: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP FIRE ALASKA: $218 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.

The Alaska Community …Rasmuson FoundationRichard L and Diane M…The Carr Foundation I…Alaska Native Tribal …Providence Health & S…Jim and Vicki Jansen …Global Credit Union F…Alaska Children's Tru…Atwood Foundation IncM J Murdock Charitabl…Rick and Cyndie Fox F…
The Alaska Community FoundationAK40.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 49 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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