Michigan · Private foundation
Gillett Family 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.
- $293k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Gillett Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 37 | $293k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $268k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $329k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $304k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $270k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $350k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $330k | 26% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $255k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blandford Nature Center | $295,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Gerald R Ford Presidential Foundation | $115,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Children's Healing Center | $115,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Grand Rapids Art Museum | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| YWCA West Central Michigan | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| CASA of Kent County Inc | $79,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Grand Rapids Public Museum | $77,000 | 8 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Da Blodgett - St John's | $65,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Grand Rapids Police Foundation | $62,500 | 6 | 19% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($737k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gillett Family 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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Ufp Industries Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Edp Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Leslie Tassell Foundation Dba Tassell-Wisner-Bottrall Fdn
How this is measured
About Gillett Family Foundation
- How much does Gillett Family Foundation give?
- Gillett Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $292,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gillett Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Arts & Culture (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Gillett Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Blandford Nature Center ($295k), Gerald R Ford Presidential Foundation ($115k), Children's Healing Center ($115k).
- Does Gillett Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gillett Family 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 Gillett Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Frey Foundation, The Meijer Foundation.
- Where is Gillett Family Foundation based?
- Gillett Family Foundation is based in MI.
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