· Private foundation
Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| OLMSTED NETWORK | $75,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $75,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $20,000 |
| UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TRINITY CHURCH MENLO PARK | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE | $10,000 |
| EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MEMORIAL AMBLULANCE CORPS | $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 (FY17–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $356k · revenue +37%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +102%- URUnited Religions6× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- EIEpiscopal Impact Fund FKA Episcopal Charitiesgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +136%
- INISLAND NURSING HOME INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -113%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +33%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is French Heritage Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 48 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 SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OLMSTED NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Religions ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Impact Fund FKA Episcopal Charities ↗
- Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds READY BY 21 MENTORING ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & CHORALE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA) ↗
- Who funds ISLAND NURSING HOME 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond F and Judith K McCaskey 2003 Charitable Trust · Hickrill Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Stephen and Margaret Gill Family 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.
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
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.