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Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
31%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$60k18%
FY202426$59k31%
FY202327$46k41%
FY202221$44k33%
FY202118$42k39%
FY202021$49k52%
FY201923$43k61%
FY201816$36k44%
84% 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$107kEducation$80kReligion$30kYouth Development$21kRecreation & Sports$21kHousing & Shelter$18kPhilanthropy$16kArts & Culture$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Heidelberg University$20,00050%
Women Helping Young Mothers Inc$18,5009n/a
Tiffin University$17,00050%
Tiffin Seneca United Way Inc$14,50042%
Terra College Foundation$12,00012%
Csji-Tiffin Inc$11,00040%
Sisters in Shelter$10,50052%
Old Fort Elementary PTO$10,0003n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of Sandusky County$8,00080%
Fostoria Learning Center$5,50021%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Heidelberg University$20,00050%
Women Helping Young Mothers Inc$18,5009n/a
Tiffin University$17,00050%
Tiffin Seneca United Way Inc$14,50042%
Terra College Foundation$12,00012%
Csji-Tiffin Inc$11,00040%
Sisters in Shelter$10,50052%
Old Fort Elementary PTO$10,0003n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of Sandusky County$8,00080%
Fostoria Learning Center$5,50021%
St Francis Home Inc$5,00010%
Family Counseling Service Inc$4,5004n/a
Tiffin-Seneca Child Care Center Inc$4,00020%
Seneca Habitat for Humanity$4,00021%
Tiffin City Schools$3,7503n/a
Tiffin Seneca Heritage Festival Incorporated$3,5004n/a
Saint Vincent Depaul Society$2,36011%
Stein Hospice Service Inc$2,00010%
Community Hospice Care$2,00020%
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc$1,00010%
New Housing Ohio Inc$1,00010%
The Stemtown Historical Society$80921%
Franciscan Earth Literacy Center$50010%
Hope in Fostoria$5001n/a
The Humane Society of Seneca County$50010%
Seneca County Honor Bus$30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($264k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHeidelberg University: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTiffin University: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTiffin Seneca United Way Inc: $14,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTerra College Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCsji-Tiffin Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSisters in Shelter: $10,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Sandusky County: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFostoria Learning Center: $5,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSt Francis Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTiffin-Seneca Child Care Center Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSeneca Habitat for Humanity: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSaint Vincent Depaul Society: $2,360 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetStein Hospice Service Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Hospice Care: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of North Central Ohio Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Housing Ohio Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stemtown Historical Society: $809 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFranciscan Earth Literacy Center: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Humane Society of Seneca County: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeneca County Honor Bus: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

National Machinery Foundation IncOH36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Machinery Foundation Inc · Cole Family Foundation · Meshech Frost Tr Uw Charitable · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Seneca Industrial & Economic Development Corp · Premier Bank Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Webster Foundation Inc · Knight-Baldwin Charitable Fund Inc · The Twenty First Century Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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About Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation

How much does Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation give?
Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $59,830 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Education (19%), Religion (7%).
Who are Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Heidelberg University ($20k), Women Helping Young Mothers Inc ($19k), Tiffin University ($17k).
Does Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable 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 Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Machinery Foundation Inc, Cole Family Foundation, Meshech Frost Tr Uw Charitable.
Where is Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation based?
Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable Foundation is based in OH.

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 84 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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