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Gilmore Family Scholarship Fdn at a glance

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Gilmore Family Scholarship Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$258k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.7MHealth$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,700
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$7,000
FOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES$7,000
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES$6,700
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY$6,700
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$6,700
CONCORDIA COLLEGE$6,700
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES$6,700
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SMITH COLLEGE: $7k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%FOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7k → 10%CARLETON COLLEGE: $7k → 11%UNIV OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES FBO: $7k → 11%COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $7k → 11%CONCORDIA COLLEGE FBO WYATT LINE: $7k → 11%HAMLINE UNIV FBO KAITLIN LATTNER: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $7k → 15%MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 15%FAITH BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE: $7k → 10%MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $7k → 14%ST NORBERT COLLEGE: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUPERIOR: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE: $7k → 12%YALE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 12%COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: $7k → 7%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 19%NORTHWESTERN UNIV FBO EVELYN OJARD: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $7k → 13%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $7k → 11%CONCORDIA COLLEGE: $7k → 11%HAMLINE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $7k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $7k → 13%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $7k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $7k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $7k → 11%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
AZ
NC
SC
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$771k · 32 repeat orgs$653k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
75

Total granted

$771k
$619k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+46%

Still filing today

34%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    3× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +38%
  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $26k · revenue +11%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIV OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES FBO
    one grant, 2023 · $49k
  • TC
    THE COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA FBO
    one grant, 2023 · $21k
  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +140%
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
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
2
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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3
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

—
4
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
8
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of Saint Benedict; the most unlike its peers is University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 115 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $128,375 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $71,425 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIESUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $52,475 · OtherUNIV OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES FBO: $49,000 · Other+92 more: $869,925 · Other+92 moreCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $39,775 · EducationCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLAS…University of St Thomas: $33,950 · EducationUniversity of St Thom…COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $28,825 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENE…ST OLAF COLLEGE: $25,650 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGENORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $20,825 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSI…Faith Baptist Bible College: $12,825 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $12,825 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $12,825 · EducationBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $12,250 · Education+10 more: $72,650 · Education+10 more
Other$1,171,200Education$272,400

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 budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $39,775 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $33,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $28,825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $25,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $20,825 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $18,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI ASSOC: $18,950 over 2y, 19% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $16,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetFaith Baptist Bible College: $12,825 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $12,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $12,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $12,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $12,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC: $6,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $6,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $6,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $6,125 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.

  • Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
  • Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds Faith Baptist Bible College ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗

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 Eagle FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Eagle FoundationMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Eagle Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gilmore Family Scholarship Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilmore Family Scholarship Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’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 →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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 115 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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