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Gilmore Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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:

Its 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. Its 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
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

MI
NY
CA
UT
WV
VA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Gilmore Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Gilmore Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc; 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 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. 18 of the 31 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherHIWAY TABERNACLE: $15,000 · Other+6 more: $44,340 · Other+6 moreMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $30,000 · AnimalsMUTTS WITH A MISSIONPAWS OF HONOR INC: $25,000 · AnimalsPAWS OF HONOR INCK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $25,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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
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 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 AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS OF HONOR INC ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS 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 ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilmore Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% 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, 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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home