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· Private foundation
John and Deborah Gillis Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$361k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of John and Deborah Gillis Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
fall scholarship
2020
summerbookfall brightbright starsstars scholarshipfall scholarship
2021
studentsfall
2022
scholarship studenthousing scholarshipstudent scholarshiptextbookstudent attendingscholarship recipientsscholarship students
2023
isdkerry garmongarmon scholarship
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
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Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $360,623.
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Median grant
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States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 89% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 27 repeat orgs$641k to everyone else
27 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
27
45
Total granted
$1.2M
$280k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+25%
+37%
Still filing today
19%
13%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $361k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthOther
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
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +35%- COCollege of the Ozarks3× · 2021–2023 · $26k · revenue +15%
Baylor University3× · 2021–2023 · $23k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TCTAMU Commerceone grant, 2023 · $87k
- MUMIDTOWN URBAN STUDENT HOUSINGone grant, 2022 · $53k
- TJTyler Junior Collegeone grant, 2023 · $31k
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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University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa is a student-centered research university that cultivates interconnected learning experiences to explore complex ideas and create new knowledge in a spirit of free inquiry. Guided by our commitment to diversity,…
Education
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Oklahoma Christian University
Oklahoma Christian University Exists to educate, mentor, and inspire students to fulfill their potential and transform their lives through Christian faith, scholarship, and service.
Education
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Oklahoma Baptist University
A Christian Liberal Arts University.
Education
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Houston Christian University
To provide instruction for approximately 5,200 students in undergraduate and graduate courses.
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University of Central Oklahoma
Funding of college scholarships and support of university programs.
Education
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Texas Lutheran University
As a community of faith and learning, texas lutheran university empowers a diverse student body through an education centered on the liberal arts and professional programs. see form 990, part iii, line 1 for continuation of mission…
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Texas Wesleyan University
Founded in 1890 in fort worth, texas wesleyan university is a united methodist institution with a tradition in the liberal arts and sciences... (continued on sch. o)
Education
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University of Dallas
The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…
Education
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Hardin-Simmons University
To be a community providing excellence in education enlightened by Christian faith and values.
Education
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Southwest Baptist University
Sbu provides undergraduate and graduate degrees & offers a variety of activities, amenities, & scholarships to prepare students to become servant leaders in a global society.
Education
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Southern Wesleyan University
Challenging students to be dedicated scholars and leaders who impact the world for Christ.
Education
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Kansas City University
Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Texas At Arlington and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,655,515Education$174,060Health$33
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 University of Texas at Arlington ↗
- Who funds University of Texas at Tyler ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds College of the Ozarks ↗
- Who funds Baylor University ↗
- Who funds Ouachita Baptist University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Texas Christian 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.
Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · 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 organisation John and Deborah Gillis 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: University of Texas at Tyler.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 751393366 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on University of Texas at Tyler, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 55% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to John and Deborah Gillis Foundation?
Find your warmest path to John and Deborah Gillis Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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