Pennsylvania · 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.
- $680k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $136,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 24 | $680k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $760k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $501k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $505k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $500k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $401k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $372k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $230k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Utd Preby Chrc Utd Sts Amer | $1,021,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Shady Side Academy | $1,021,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Third Presbyterian Church | $996,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Carnegie Institute | $88,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Neighborhood Academy | $78,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wqed Multimedia | $55,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $54,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $52,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Achieva | $48,000 | 9 | 0% |
| East End Cooperative Ministry | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Utd Preby Chrc Utd Sts Amer | $1,021,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Shady Side Academy | $1,021,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Third Presbyterian Church | $996,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Carnegie Institute | $88,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Neighborhood Academy | $78,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wqed Multimedia | $55,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $54,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $52,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Achieva | $48,000 | 9 | 0% |
| East End Cooperative Ministry | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Squirrel Island Preservation Foundation | $39,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Family Resources | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Squirrel Island Village Corporation | $36,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Pittsburgh Botanic Garden | $35,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania | $28,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Squirrel Island Historical Society | $28,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | $26,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Squirrel Island Library | $24,000 | 9 | 27% |
| Literacy Pittsburgh | $23,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Margaret Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($538k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: 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
How this is measured
Compare James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation with peer funders
About James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation
- How much does James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation give?
- James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $680,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Education (27%), Health (11%).
- Who are James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Utd Preby Chrc Utd Sts Amer ($1.0M), Shady Side Academy ($1.0M), Third Presbyterian Church ($997k).
- Does James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation 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 James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jack Buncher Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Where is James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation based?
- James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundation is based in PA.
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