Massachusetts · Private foundation
Gilson Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2024
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,220
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 53
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Gilson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k 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 | 61 | $1.4M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $1.3M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.0M | 48% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $493k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $462k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $475k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $182k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $85k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $730,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Jog Your Memory 5k Inc | $390,000 | 6 | 47% |
| Open Table Inc | $251,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Care Dimensions Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gaining Ground Inc | $171,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Play Ball Foundation Inc | $160,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Lever Inc | $125,110 | 5 | 7% |
| Dignity Matters Inc | $121,070 | 4 | 2% |
| Community Health Programs Incorporated | $115,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $113,200 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gilson Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 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: Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Berkshire United Way Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gilson Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Gilson Family Foundation Inc give?
- Gilson Family Foundation Inc reported 63 grants totaling $1,533,733 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gilson Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Health (16%).
- Who are Gilson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cradles to Crayons Inc ($731k), Jog Your Memory 5k Inc ($390k), Open Table Inc ($252k).
- Does Gilson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gilson Family Foundation Inc 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 Gilson Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation.
- Where is Gilson Family Foundation Inc based?
- Gilson Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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