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Joan L and Robert C Gilkison Fami at a glance

· Private foundation

Joan L and Robert C Gilkison Fami

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$449k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$372kEducation$276kFood & Nutrition$273kHealth$253kAnimals$234kHousing & Shelter$218kReligion$172kYouth Development$128kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $436k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER$20,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES$15,000
HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL$15,000
MENINGIOMA MOMMAS$15,000
BIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL$11,315
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE$10,000
THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY$10,000
THE BACK PACK PROGRAM$10,000
STRAFFORD NUTRITION MEALS ON WHEE$10,000
POPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE$10,000
GCSCC$10,000
OPERATION DELTA DOG$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE D: $10k → 6%GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $10k → 8%PIVOT: $10k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $13k → 14%KULTURECITY: $10k → 16%THERE WITH CARE: $15k → 12%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $3k → 26%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%WE CARE CHARITY: $13k → 5%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUN: $10k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%THERE WITH CARE: $10k → 12%WE CARE CHARITY: $10k → 5%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUN: $10k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%THERE WITH CARE: $10k → 12%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUN: $8k → 10%SIDEWALK PROJECT: $10k → 14%HIPS: $10k → 14%THERE WITH CARE: $10k → 12%HOSPICE HOUSE AND SUPPORT CARE: $3k → 7%WE CARE CHARITY: $10k → 5%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 7%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUN: $5k → 10%SIDEWALK PROJECT: $10k → 14%THERE WITH CARE: $10k → 12%WE CARE CHARITY: $10k → 5%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUN: $5k → 10%HOPE INSPIRE LOVE: $10k → 9%THERE WITH CARE: $10k → 12%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUN: $5k → 10%HAVEN: $13k → 5%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUN: $3k → 10%SEEDS OF FAITH: $15k → 9%SEEDS OF FAITH: $10k → 9%ACCESS TO INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 10%HAVEN: $10k → 5%SEEDS OF FAITH: $10k → 9%HAVEN: $10k → 5%SEEDS OF FAITH: $10k → 9%SEEDS OF FAITH: $10k → 9%SOLACE FRIENDS: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
OK
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 50 repeat orgs$727k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
61

Total granted

$1.6M
$545k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+22%

Still filing today

70%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PM
    POPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +38%
  • CD
    Child Development Resources
    3× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +125%
  • VO
    VOICES OF HOPE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +8%
  • TJ
    THE JOHN LELAND CENTER FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Safe Haven for Cats

The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.

Animals
2
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
3
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
4
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
5
Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc

Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…

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6
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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7
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
8
Good Samaritan Hospice Inc

It is the mission of good samaritan hospice to affirm life in the midst of illness and grief. we accomplish this objective by providing quality patient care, family support, community education and counseling services through an…

Health
9
Authoracare Collective

Authoracare collective empowers people to be active participants in their care journey, enabling them to live on their own terms through personalized support for mind, body, and spirit.

Human Services
10
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc

To help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.

Human Services
11
Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc

To provide emergency shelter

Human Services
12
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share Outreach Inc; the most unlike its peers is We Care Food Pantry Inc. 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

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 129 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/79
Grantees still filing
55/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $55,000 · OtherFIRST: $45,000 · Other+75 more: $979,290 · Other+75 moreTHERE WITH CARE: $65,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARESEEDS OF FAITH INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF FAITH INCGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesGrafton County Senior…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJE…We Care Charity Inc: $43,000 · Human ServicesWe Care Charity IncNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $35,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholi…VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS: $35,000 · Human ServicesVOUCHERS FOR VETERANSHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $33,000 · Human ServicesHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVEN…THE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $20,000 · Human Services+10 more: $80,500 · Human Services+10 moreChild Development Resources: $52,500 · EducationChild Develo…CAIRN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationCAIRN UNIVER…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $43,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILL…WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $40,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON C…LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationLANCASTER BI…BRING ON THE MUSIC INC: $10,000 · EducationEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · EducationROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationPOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $63,000 · AnimalsPOPE MEMOR…LIVE FREE ANIMAL RESCUE: $45,000 · AnimalsLIVE FREE …OPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $35,000 · AnimalsOPERATION …ABOVE THE NOTCH HUMANE SOCIETY: $30,000 · AnimalsABOVE THE …SAVE YOUR ASS LONG EAR RESCUE: $15,000 · AnimalsSAVE YOUR …NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $13,000 · AnimalsNEW HAMPSH…SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $10,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · AnimalsVOICES OF HOPE INC: $52,500 · HealthVeterans2Veterans Group: $30,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20,000 · HealthMeningioma Mommas Inc: $15,000 · HealthLITTLEST TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthPATHWAYS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $9,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCross Roads House Inc: $33,000 · Housing & ShelterFamilies in Transition: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterPORCHLIGHT INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLittleton Winter Shelter: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,079,290Human Services$454,500Education$255,500Animals$216,000Health$169,000Youth Development$95,000Housing & Shelter$83,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $65,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $63,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSEEDS OF FAITH INC: $55,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetChild Development Resources: $52,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVOICES OF HOPE INC: $52,500 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCAIRN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE FREE ANIMAL RESCUE: $45,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $43,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWe Care Charity Inc: $43,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOUCHERS FOR VETERANS: $35,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $35,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR FACES OF CHILDREN: $33,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $33,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCross Roads House Inc: $33,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFamilies in Transition: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans2Veterans Group: $30,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABOVE THE NOTCH HUMANE SOCIETY: $30,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY CHAMBER PLAYERSINC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL INC: $18,815 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMeningioma Mommas Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetSAVE YOUR ASS LONG EAR RESCUE: $15,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetMAKEIT LABS CORP: $14,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUTREACH INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLITTLEST TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRING ON THE MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKultureCity: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
  • Who funds POPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF FAITH INC ↗
  • Who funds Child Development Resources ↗
  • Who funds VOICES OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAIRN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LIVE FREE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Grafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds We Care Charity Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
  • Who funds VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION DELTA DOG INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR FACES OF CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Cross Roads House Inc ↗
  • Who funds Families in Transition ↗
  • Who funds Veterans2Veterans Group ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ABOVE THE NOTCH HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Granite United WayCogswell Benevolent T…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…Bangor Savings Bank F…Eastern Bank Foundati…Lincoln Financial Fou…Agnes M Lindsay TrustAbraham Burtman Chari…Bank of New Hampshire…A Caring Community IncThe Evjue Foundation …
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH28× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Granite United Way · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Abraham Burtman Charity Trust · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joan L and Robert C Gilkison Fami funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan L and Robert C Gilkison Fami. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pivot Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 129 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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