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Gilmore 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.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Animals$260kHealth$186kPublic Benefit$140kHuman Services$54kEducation$47kReligion$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$16k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Semper K9 Assistance Dogs$15,000
Association for Research Enlightenm$15,000
Paws for Purple Hearts$10,000
Paws of Honor$10,000
K9s for Warriors$10,000
Guardian Angels Medical Service Dog$10,000
America's VetDogs$10,000
Mutts With A Mission$5,000
Individual grant recipient$700
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $15k → 9%Guide Dogs of Texas: $1k → 16%Guardian Angels Medical Service Dog: $15k → 16%Blue Star Service Dogs: $10k → 5%Guardian Angels Medical Service Dog: $10k → 16%Blue Star Service Dogs: $10k → 5%Guardian Angels Medical Service Dog: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
CA
UT
WV
VA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Gilmore Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Gilmore Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$635k · 19 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
12

Total granted

$635k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+39%

Still filing today

53%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SK
    SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +770%
  • PF
    PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +60%
  • TH
    TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +31%
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +49%
  • RP
    RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
A Cause to Give Us Paws

Service Dog training for Disabled Veterans

Animals
2
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
3
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
4
K9s On the Front Line

Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.

Health
5
Veteran Service Dogs Organization

Provide service dogs to us military veterans

6
Pawsitivity

Train and place service dogs at no cost with U.S. military veterans with PTSD and other disabilities to increase independence.

Human Services
7
Alpha Bravo Canine

Helping veterans with ptsd and traumatic brain injuries regain quality of life using service dogs.

Human Services
8
Baden K9 Kares Foundation Inc

to assist veterans in obtaining service animals

Human Services
9
Duty First Assistance Dogs

Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders

Human Services
10
Faithfully K9 Service Dog and Dog Training

Empower disabled individuals to train a dog as their service dog, increasing their independence.

Animals
11
Patriot Paws Service Dogs

To train and provide service dogs of the highest quality at no cost to disabled american veterans and others with mobile disabilities in order to help restore their physical and emotional independence.

Human Services
12
Fidos for Freedom Inc

To provide quality trained assistance dogs for mobility-challenged individuals, hearing-impaired individuals and veterans with combat related ptsd.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trinity Valley Exposition Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Association for Research Enlightenm — $127,000 · OtherAssociation for Research EnlightenmASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT — $45,000 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENTIndividual grant recipient — $41,478 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC — $40,000 · OtherTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INCSARA - Southern Animal Rescue Assoc — $25,000 · OtherSARA - Southern Animal Rescue AssocSOUTHERN ANIMAL RESCUE ASSOCIATION — $18,000 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · Other+6 more — $44,340 · Other+6 moreMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $30,000 · AnimalsMUTTS WITH A MISSIONK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $25,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INCPAWS OF HONOR INC — $25,000 · AnimalsPAWS OF HONOR INCPAWS OF WAR INC — $20,000 · AnimalsPAWS OF WAR INCBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $15,500 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SO…RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC — $15,000 · AnimalsRESCUED PETS MOVEMENT …ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $10,000 · AnimalsALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE I…PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC — $5,000 · Animals+1 more — $3,000 · AnimalsSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS — $60,000 · Public BenefitSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE …PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $55,000 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEART…AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE…GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN A…BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesBLUE STAR …GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EY…+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY VALLEY EXPOSITION INC — $5,300 · Education
Other$372,818Animals$148,500Public Benefit$140,000Human Services$71,000Education$5,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS — $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $15,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY VALLEY EXPOSITION INC — $5,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS
  • Who funds TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC
  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC
  • Who funds MUTTS WITH A MISSION
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
  • Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC
  • Who funds PAWS OF HONOR INC
  • Who funds BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC
  • Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC
  • Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC
  • Who funds TRINITY VALLEY EXPOSITION INC
  • Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC
  • Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC
  • Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gilmore Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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