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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of PAUL M & LUCY J GILLMOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| OLD FORT CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SENECA COUNTY COUNCIL ON HOMELESS | $4,000 |
| FACT | $3,000 |
| TIFFIN CITY SCHOOLS | $2,750 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CSJI -TIFFIN INC | $2,500 |
| WOMEN HELPING YOUNG MOTHERS | $2,000 |
| CASA OF SENECA SANDUSKY | $1,500 |
| SISTERS IN SHELTER | $1,500 |
| TIFFIN SENECA HERITAGE FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| HAROLD J FRALEY FOP 128 | $1,000 |
| TILLY CHRISTMAN FOR KIDS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- HUHeidelberg University5× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +4%
- TUTiffin University5× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +32%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SANDUSKY COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TCTERRA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -3%
- HPHAYES PRESIDENTIAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $6k
- OFOLD FORT HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To improve the economic well-being and quality of life for tiffin and seneca county, ohio, by leading, promoting, and facilitating positive economic, community and downtown development.
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
Assist low income people in achieving housing
Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…
To be the most influential and respected association of business professionals in Northwest Ohio shaping a positive business environment that promotes the exchange of goods and services to make a profit.
Skilled nursing care for the elderly.
The mission of community hospice is to honor life by providing peace, hope, and compassion to those we serve. this is done by providing professional medical care and also numerous therapies, counseling, & spiritual guidance for our…
To provide residential care and services to handicapped citizens of northern ohio.
Homeless shelter
Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan
To receive and accept property to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes for the benefit of the people in the henry county, ohio area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Csji-Tiffin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seneca County Honor Bus. 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 39 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 84 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 Heidelberg University ↗
- Who funds Tiffin University ↗
- Who funds TIFFIN SENECA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds TERRA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CSJI-TIFFIN INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS IN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SANDUSKY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOSTORIA LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds TIFFIN-SENECA CHILD CARE CENTER 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: 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
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 Paul M & Lucy J Gillmor Charitable 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.
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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