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James P & Ruth C Gillroy Foundation Inc

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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Education$236kOther$131k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$85,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY$85,250
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BABSON COLLEGE: $4k → 7%WIDENER UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $85k → 6%IONA COLLEGE: $10k → 9%WAGNER COLLEGE: $4k → 11%QUEEN COLLEGE: $3k → 13%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $7k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $3k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%BROOKLYN COLLEGE: $3k → 20%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $6k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $14k → 14%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $7k → 11%VIRGINIA WESLEYAN: $3k → 10%LANDMARK COLLEGE: $15k → 11%BABSON COLLEGE: $4k → 7%MERCY COLLEGE: $10k → 9%WAGNER COLLEGE: $3k → 11%QUEEN COLLEGE: $3k → 13%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $5k → 13%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $5k → 11%VIRGINIA WESLEYAN: $2k → 10%LANDMARK COLLEGE: $15k → 11%BABSON COLLEGE: $2k → 7%MERCY COLLEGE: $12k → 9%WAGNER COLLEGE: $2k → 11%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $5k → 13%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN: $5k → 11%BABSON COLLEGE: $2k → 7%LONA COLLEGE: $10k → 9%WAGNER COLLEGE: $2k → 11%HARTWICK COLLEGE: $3k → 13%HUNTER COLLEGE: $3k → 17%COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE: $3k → 9%MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE: $3k → 20%MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE: $3k → 20%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE: $4k → 17%THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $3k → 20%MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE: $3k → 20%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

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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$336k · 25 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
6

Total granted

$336k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+17%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • AU
    ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +11%
  • LC
    LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +13%
  • HC
    Hartwick College
    6× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IU
    IONA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • LC
    LONA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +15%

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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
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Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
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Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Iona University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADELPHI UNIVERSITY — $86,500 · EducationADELPHI UNIVERSITYHartwick College — $22,000 · EducationHartwick CollegeMERCY UNIVERSITY — $21,500 · EducationMERCY UNIVERSITYUniversity of Chicago — $17,730 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoBABSON COLLEGE — $15,500 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEWAGNER COLLEGE — $14,500 · EducationWAGNER COLLEGEBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $14,000 · EducationBRYANT UNIVERSITYIONA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $8,500 · Education+7 more — $26,000 · Education+7 moreLANDMARK COLLEGE INC — $30,000 · OtherLANDMARK COLLEGE INCUNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN — $21,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWNUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE — $14,000 · OtherUNITED NEGRO COLLEGELONA COLLEGE — $10,000 · OtherLONA COLLEGEMEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE — $10,000 · OtherMEDGAR EVERS COLLEGESETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $6,250 · OtherCOLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE — $5,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,261 · OtherTHE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — $5,000 · OtherQUEEN COLLEGE — $5,000 · OtherHUNTER COLLEGE — $5,000 · OtherBROOKLYN COLLEGE — $5,000 · Other+4 more — $8,250 · Other+4 more
Education$236,230Other$131,011

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY — $86,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARK COLLEGE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY — $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $17,730 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE — $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWAGNER COLLEGE — $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE — $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY — $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds Hartwick College
  • Who funds MERCY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds University of Chicago
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds WAGNER COLLEGE
  • Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
  • Who funds VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Cornell University

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.

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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 P & Ruth C Gillroy 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Landmark College Inc6% of income from government
  • Babson College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to James P & Ruth C Gillroy Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to James P & Ruth C Gillroy 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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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