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Gilliland Family Fund Inc at a glance

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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.

$228k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $98,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $228,400 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $130,400 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$27,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ORPHEUM THEATRE$51,000
MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC$27,000
WKNO PUBLIC BROADCASTING$10,000
A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%M K Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence: $7k → 14%The Alliance for Climate Protection: $10k → 14%WEBB SCHOOL: $50k → 13%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (SCHOOL OF LAW): $10k → 14%PORTER LEATH: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL ARTS AND SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%CONSERVATION FUND: $8k → 7%LIVING WITH WOLVES LTD: $17k → 12%PORTER LEATH: $5k → 17%AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST: $16k → 12%Church Health Center of Memphis Inc: $8k → 17%GRACE-ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $7k → 17%Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi: $10k → 17%Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc: $7k → 17%REVIVAL-MEMPHIS: $10k → 17%NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM: $10k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TENNESSEE AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI: $55k → 17%Memphis Library Foundation: $7k → 17%LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE: $21k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TENNESSEE AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI: $6k → 17%WKNO PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 17%WKNO PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 17%WKNO PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 17%WKNO Public Broadcasting: $10k → 17%MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $27k → 17%Christ Methodist Day School: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 8 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
19

Total granted

$333k
$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • OT
    ORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP
    4× · 2021–2024 · $72k · revenue +367%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $71k · revenue +20%
  • MP
    MID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $106k · revenue +72%
  • TW
    THE WEBB SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • LB
    Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue +16%
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
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
2
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
3
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis

To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.

Human Services
4
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
5
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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6
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
7
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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9
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
10
University of Mississippi Foundation

The university of mississippi foundation is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1973 by the state of mississippi to operate primarily for the benefit of the university of mississippi. the foundation is responsible for receiving,…

Education
11
Milligan University

As a christian liberal arts university, milligan university seeks to honor god by educating men and women to be servant-leaders.

Education
12
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mk Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. 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 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $106,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATIONTHE WEBB SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationTHE WEBB SCHOOLARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $37,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FO…LeMoyne-Owen College: $21,000 · EducationLeMoyne-Owen CollegeVanderbilt University: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $7,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC: $71,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $27,000 · HealthLe Bonheur Child…CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $8,200 · HealthCHURCH HEALTH CE…ORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP: $71,500 · Community ImprovementORPHEUM THEA…REVIVALMEMPHIS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementREVIVALMEMPH…MID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMID-SOUTH …American Battlefield Trust: $16,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican B…Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLorraine C…A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $5,350 · Human ServicesPORTER-LEATH: $25,100 · OtherPORTER-LEATHMEMPHIS ROTARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMEMPHIS ROTARY FOUN…CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MEMPHIS TN: $10,000 · OtherCHRIST UNITED METHO…GRACE-ST LUKES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherGRACE-ST LUKES EPIS…ANGEL STREET INC: $25,000 · OtherANGEL STREET INCLIVING WITH WOLVES LTD: $17,000 · OtherLIVING WITH WOLVES …OVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY: $13,750 · OtherOVERTON PARK CONSER…MK Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence: $7,000 · OtherMK Gandhi Institute…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $6,750 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,500 · Environment
Education$241,000Health$106,200Community Improvement$81,500Arts & Culture$66,000Human Services$55,350Other$121,600Environment$44,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $5,350 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.

Community Foundation …Christian Community F…Jewish Foundation of …Baptist Memorial Heal…Thomas W Briggs Found…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…The Day FoundationWomen's Foundation fo…Belz FoundationThe Kemmons Wilson Fa…United Way of the Mid…Raymond James Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gilliland Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilliland Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    9report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gilliland Family Fund Inc?

    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.

    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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