· Private foundation
James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of JAMES AND MARILYN A GILMORE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHADYSIDE ACADEMY | $136,000 |
| PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $136,000 |
| THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $136,000 |
| GILMORE OBGYN PHYSICIAN'S RESEARCH FUND | $102,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH | $15,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| WQED | $9,000 |
| PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY | $7,000 |
| EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH | $7,000 |
| ACHIEVA | $7,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCES | $6,000 |
| PITTSBURGH BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SSSHADY SIDE ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +45%
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE7× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue +62%
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- HHHURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SMST MARGARET FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +59%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Form 990 - mission statement the bosler memorial library is a leading intellectual, educational, recreational, and cultural asset in cumberland county. founded in 1900, this public library serves the borough of carlisle, seven townships in…
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…
The museum's mission is to provide innovative and inclusive museum experiences that inspire kindness, joy, creativity and curiosity for all learners.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carnegie Institute and the most unlike its peers is Squirrel Island Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVA ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Squirrel Island Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SQUIRREL ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SQUIRREL ISLAND LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Jack Buncher Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Charles R Burke Jr Foundation · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Robert & Mary Weisbrod Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat
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 James and Marilyn a 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.