Michigan · Private foundation
Irving S Gilmore Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 205
- Grants FY2025
- 139
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 139
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $367M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Irving S Gilmore Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 133 | $16M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 139 | $13M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 132 | $14M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $17M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $13M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $13M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irving S Gilmore International Keyboard | $3,807,379 | 3 | 28% |
| Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation | $3,035,000 | 2 | 89% |
| Western Michigan University Foundation | $2,975,610 | 3 | 4% |
| Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo | $1,996,313 | 3 | 51% |
| Senior Services Inc | $1,082,300 | 3 | 3% |
| Southwest Michigan First Corp | $1,050,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Ecumenical Senior Center Inc | $995,000 | 3 | 46% |
| Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra | $857,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Kalamazoo Area Math & Science Center | $825,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Kalamazoo Inc | $725,000 | 3 | 17% |
Show all 163 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($50M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Irving S Gilmore Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 22 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 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: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr Foundation · Enna Foundation
How this is measured
About Irving S Gilmore Foundation
- How much does Irving S Gilmore Foundation give?
- Irving S Gilmore Foundation reported 205 grants totaling $15,676,271 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 139 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Irving S Gilmore Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Human Services (18%), Education (14%).
- Who are Irving S Gilmore Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Irving S Gilmore International Keyboard ($3.8M), Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation ($3.0M), Western Michigan University Foundation ($3.0M).
- Does Irving S Gilmore Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Irving S Gilmore Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Irving S Gilmore Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation, Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc.
- Where is Irving S Gilmore Foundation based?
- Irving S Gilmore Foundation is based in MI.
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