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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 FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.0MHealth$928kPhilanthropy$806kEducation$418kCommunity Improvement$345kHousing & Shelter$244kRecreation & Sports$170kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $756k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $711k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$150,220
OPEN TABLE$75,500
ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$75,000
JOG YOUR MEMORY$60,000
GAINING GROUND$50,500
LEVER$50,110
PLAYBALL FOUNDATION$50,000
BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDAT$50,000
PITTSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$50,000
CARE DIMENSIONS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,500
DIGNITY MATTERS$34,610
JEFF'S PLACE$32,000
FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MA$30,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE: $31k → 10%WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSET: $10k → 17%EMERGENCY ACTION NETWORK: $5k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORT: $30k → 10%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY SERVIC: $8k → 17%LA COLABORATIVA: $20k → 16%JEFF'S PLACE: $32k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE: $31k → 8%LA COLABORATIVA: $20k → 16%JEFF'S PLACE: $31k → 8%EDITH DODGE MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 10%LA COLABORATIVA: $20k → 16%EDITH DODGE MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 10%EDITH DODGE MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 10%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 16%EDITH DODGE MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $150k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $150k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $150k → 16%BERSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $16k → 12%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $127k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $76k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $75k → 16%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $13k → 12%Cradles to Crayons: $2k → 16%Cradles to Crayons: $1k → 16%DIGNITY MATTERS: $35k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $31k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $30k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $25k → 8%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $50k → 10%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $3k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $7k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $17k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $15k → 12%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

ME
NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
DC
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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 51 repeat orgs$681k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
33

Total granted

$4.7M
$384k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+6%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $297k 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
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CT
    CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $731k · revenue +202%
  • JY
    JOG YOUR MEMORY 5K INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $390k · revenue +25% · 47% of their budget
  • OT
    OPEN TABLE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $252k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -3%
  • AV
    AVA'S VOICE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · 76% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN
    one grant, 2022 · $30k

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
Berkshire Grown Inc

Through events, workshops, promotions, advocacy and education highlighting locally-grown and produced food, the organization helps to create a thriving local food economy.

Food & Nutrition
2
Berkshire Food Project Inc

To alleviate hunger, food insecurity and social isolation by serving healthy and dignified noontime meals every weekday by providing education in making good, nutritional choices and by helping people access available food resources.

Food & Nutrition
3
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Link Inc

Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.

Food & Nutrition
5
Spoonfuls

Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…

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7
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Central Ma Food Rescue Inc

Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.

Food & Nutrition
9
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
10
Berk County Regional Employment Board

To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.

Employment
11
The Arc of Bristol County Inc

To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…

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12
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Amputee Soccer Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Food AssistanceAffordable Housing ProvidersArts and Performance Organi…Early Childhood and K-12 Ed…Local Economic Development …Music Education & Performan…Research and Innovation Adv…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr15%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%45%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr15%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/76
the rest of the field
11%
3,254/30,122

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

75 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 112 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/75
Grantees still filing
52/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PITTSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL — $247,985 · OtherPITTSFIELD HIGH SCHOOLCare Dimensions Inc — $200,000 · OtherCare Dimensions IncBERKSHIRE TACONIC FOUNDATION — $175,000 · OtherBERKSHIRE TACONIC FOUNDATIONGAINING GROUND INC — $171,500 · OtherGAINING GROUND INCCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED — $115,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $100,000 · OtherLITERACY NETWORK — $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS — $85,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE — $80,000 · Other+56 more — $906,687 · Other+56 moreCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $730,700 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCDignity Matters Inc — $121,070 · Human ServicesDignity Matters IncJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc — $93,500 · Human ServicesJeff's Place Children's …LA COLABORATIVA INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC — $60,500 · Human ServicesPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC — $50,000 · Human Services+7 more — $111,500 · Human Services+7 moreESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNTY CO…PLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC — $160,000 · PhilanthropyPLAY BALL FOUND…IMPACT CHARITABLE — $127,358 · PhilanthropyIMPACT CHARITAB…Birthday Wishes Inc — $90,500 · PhilanthropyBirthday Wishes…SPUR INC — $80,883 · PhilanthropySPUR INCBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyBERKSHIRE TACON…+3 more — $43,064 · Philanthropy+3 moreOPEN TABLE INC — $251,500 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABLE I…PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREA…ROOTS RISING INC — $66,500 · Food & NutritionROOTS RISING…GREENAGERS INC — $56,000 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS I…PITTSFIELD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $55,000 · Food & NutritionPITTSFIELD C…BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC — $50,500 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRES B…BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more — $35,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 moreJOG YOUR MEMORY 5K INC — $390,000 · HealthJOG YOUR ME…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $113,200 · HealthDana-Farber…AVA'S VOICE INC — $50,000 · HealthAVA'S VOICE…+3 more — $28,000 · HealthFamilies in Transition — $73,460 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC — $62,200 · Housing & ShelterCONSTRUCT INC — $42,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE LOVE OF T FOUNDATION INC — $7,800 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLEVER INC — $125,110 · Community ImprovementBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I — $45,500 · Community ImprovementNEW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWestside Legends Inc — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,181,172Human Services$1,247,270Philanthropy$776,805Food & Nutrition$614,500Health$581,200Housing & Shelter$190,960Community Improvement$190,610

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $730,700 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJOG YOUR MEMORY 5K INC — $390,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC — $251,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC — $171,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetPLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC — $160,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetIMPACT CHARITABLE — $127,358 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLEVER INC — $125,110 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetDignity Matters Inc — $121,070 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED — $115,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $113,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc — $93,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetBirthday Wishes Inc — $90,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSPUR INC — $80,883 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies in Transition — $73,460 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetROOTS RISING INC — $66,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $62,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $60,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC — $60,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREENAGERS INC — $56,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPITTSFIELD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $55,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — $51,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC — $50,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAVA'S VOICE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I — $45,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC — $42,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC — $31,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC — $30,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $30,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMETRO CARING — $28,052 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBerkshire Community College Foundation Inc — $20,564 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE EDITH DODGE MEMORIAL FUND — $20,000 over 4y, 96% of budget18 DEGREES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $16,075 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRES TOMORROW INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetROOT NS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOG YOUR MEMORY 5K INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
  • Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT CHARITABLE ↗
  • Who funds LEVER INC ↗
  • Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Birthday Wishes Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPUR INC ↗
  • Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
  • Who funds Families in Transition ↗
  • Who funds ROOTS RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PITTSFIELD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds AVA'S VOICE INC ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSTRUCT 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.

Berkshire Bank Founda…Berkshire Taconic Com…Josephine and Louise …Lee Bank Foundation I…The Feigenbaum Founda…Jane and Jack Fitzpat…Berkshire United Way …Cummings Foundation G…Donald C McGraw Found…Massachusetts Bankers…Eastern Bank Foundati…Arbella Insurance Fou…
Berkshire Bank Foundation IncMA56× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gilson Family Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Extraspecialteas Inc — 83% of income from government
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
  • New North Citizens Council Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
  • 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Gladys Allen Brigham Community Center Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Community Health Programs Incorporated — 13% of income from government
  • New American Association of Massachusetts Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Lever Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Roots Rising Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Spur Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gilson Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gilson Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 112 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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