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Gilliland Family Fund Inc

The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to assist the community foundation of greater memphis, inc. In carrying out its charitable mission.

$228k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$98k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$27,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$51,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 19
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Gilliland Family Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$98k25%
FY20236$53k0%
FY202219$329k68%
FY202114$230kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$258kHealth$156kArts & Culture$138kEnvironment$58kHuman Services$30kYouth Development$25kAnimals$17kPhilanthropy$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gilliland Family Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Memphis Foundation: $106,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOrpheum Theatre Group: $71,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region Inc: $71,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetA Step Ahead Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Webb School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMid-South Public Communications Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMemphis Botanic Garden Foundation Inc: $27,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPorter-Leath: $25,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAngel Street Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLeMoyne-Owen College: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiving With Wolves Ltd: $17,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOverton Park Conservancy: $13,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVanderbilt University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRevivalmemphis: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetThe Alliance for Climate Protection: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel H Arts & Sciences Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemphis Rotary Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChurch Health Center of Memphis Inc: $8,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMK Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence: $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMemphis Library Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $5,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN38.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Day Foundation · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis · Belz Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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.

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Find your warmest path to Gilliland Family Fund Inc 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.

About Gilliland Family Fund Inc

How much does Gilliland Family Fund Inc give?
Gilliland Family Fund Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $98,000, out of $228,400 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Gilliland Family Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (22%), Arts & Culture (19%).
Who are Gilliland Family Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: University of Memphis Foundation ($106k), Orpheum Theatre Group ($72k), Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region Inc ($71k).
Does Gilliland Family Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gilliland Family Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Jewish Foundation of Memphis.
Where is Gilliland Family Fund Inc based?
Gilliland Family Fund Inc is based in TN.

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 29 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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