Mississippi · Private foundation
Gillis 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.
- $229k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $162,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 48
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Gillis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 47 | $229k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $502k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $284k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $101k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $292k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $205k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $1,141,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Hispaniola Mountain Ministries Inc | $106,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Awana Clubs International and Affiliates | $25,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Band of Brothers | $20,000 | 2 | 28% |
| Reaching and Teaching International Ministries Incorporated | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Columbus Christian Academy Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Father's Child Ministry | $4,350 | 6 | 2% |
| Race Track Chaplaincy of America Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $2,096 | 5 | n/a |
| Wycliffe Associates Inc | $1,550 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($272k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gillis Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Farrell Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Lewis Family Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Gillis Family Foundation
- How much does Gillis Family Foundation give?
- Gillis Family Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $228,810 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 48 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Gillis Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (71%), Religion (25%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Gillis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($1.1M), Hispaniola Mountain Ministries Inc ($106k), Awana Clubs International and Affiliates ($25k).
- Does Gillis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gillis 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 Gillis Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrell Family Foundation, Ebs Foundation, Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation.
- Where is Gillis Family Foundation based?
- Gillis Family Foundation is based in MS.
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