· Private foundation
James P Gills Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TARPON SPRINGS SHEPHERD CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| FREE GRACE CHURCH | $12,000 |
| NEW HARVEST MISSION | $12,000 |
| SRL | $12,000 |
| LIVING WATER COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATI | $10,000 |
| ACTS FOUNDATION | $9,600 |
| CHARACTER GPS | $8,000 |
| JOSHUA GENERATION | $7,400 |
| LUIS PALAU ASSOCATION | $6,000 |
| FOCUS ON FAMILY | $6,000 |
| FLORIDA PREBORN RESCUE | $5,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CHAPE | $5,000 |
| MAP INTERNATIONAL INC | $5,000 |
| METRO WORLD CHILD | $5,000 |
| LOVING HANDS MINISTRIES | $4,200 |
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 (FY18–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
41 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- GIGALCOM INTERNATIONAL USA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +36%
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC3× · 2018–2022 · $52k · revenue +97%- NHNEW HARVEST MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $39k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TRThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministriesone grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue +12%
- LHLESLIE HALE MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $48k
- FWFAITH WORLD INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $39k
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.
Religious Purposes
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
World outreach
As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Religious
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galcom International Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 71 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 The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ↗
- Who funds Tarpon Springs Shepherd Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GALCOM INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HARVEST MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATER COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWS 2 LIVE BY INTERNATIONAL INC dba Character GPS ↗
- Who funds LOVING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds Forever Be Sure ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA GENERATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA PREBORN RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS TRAINING MINISTRIES 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 James P Gills 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Preborn Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
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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