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S L Gimbel 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.

$19M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
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100% of S L Gimbel Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$18,900,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$18,900,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$344M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations S L Gimbel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20191$6.1M0%
FY20181$5.7Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$69M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$18,900,000

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About S L Gimbel Foundation

How much does S L Gimbel Foundation give?
S L Gimbel Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $18,900,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does S L Gimbel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (100%).
Does S L Gimbel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does S L Gimbel 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.
Where is S L Gimbel Foundation based?
S L Gimbel Foundation is based in CA.

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 3 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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