How much does Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation give?

Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $321,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Religion (10%).

Who are Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Francisco Ballet Association ($356k), Olmsted Network Inc ($320k), San Francisco Conservatory of Music ($231k).

Does Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Stephen and Margaret Gill Family 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 Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation based?

Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation is based in CA.

Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation

Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The Bessemer Giving Fund, Maine Community Foundation Inc.

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.

$321k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$727kRecreation & Sports$396kReligion$196kCivil Rights$185kHealth$120kScience & Tech$117kEducation$110kHuman Services$75kOther$0

02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $6k
$10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$50k–250k3 grants · $225k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE	$10,000
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES	$10,000
TRINITY CHURCH MENLO PARK	$10,000
AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY	$5,000
MEMORIAL AMBLULANCE CORPS	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 41 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+33%

Still filing today

68%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalEducationReligionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

SF
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $356k · revenue +37%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +102%
UR
United Religions
6× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +97%

Funded once

EI
Episcopal Impact Fund FKA Episcopal Charitiesgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +136%
IN
ISLAND NURSING HOME INC
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -113%
AH
American Heart Association Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +33%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture

Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture

California Academy of Sciences

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,…

Arts & Culture

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is French Heritage Society Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

23/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$397,000Recreation & Sports$320,000Education$281,000Other$603,500Civil Rights$170,000Religion$135,000Health$122,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home