· Private foundation
The Dorothy M Gillespie 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $3,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON | $1,500 |
| GRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION | $1,125 |
| WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA | $500 |
| THE ATELIER 17 PROJECT | $250 |
| DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE | $250 |
| FINE ARTS CENTER OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY | $250 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF ROCKLAND | $215 |
| DREAMS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of your 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $41k · revenue +52%
- TATENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +140%
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2023 · $8k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF ART DELANDone grant, 2017 · $2k
- UCUNCW CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -20%
- JMJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +95%
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 mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
Laguna college of art & design prepares individuals for careers as creative artists and designers in a culturally and ethnically diverse world through a curriculum that emphasizes acquiring skills based on observation, representation, and…
Founded by working creative professionals, montserrat college of art provides an individualized education focused on maximizing the professional and personal success of each student. structured around experiential learning, studio…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
Vcfa is a global community of artists continually redefining what it means to be an arts college. we measure our success by our ability to foster the excellence of emerging and established practitioners. we believe that the arts are…
Trinity college's mission is to provide excellence in liberal arts education with emphasis on outstanding faculty, rigorous curriculum, talented and motivated student body and an attractive, supportive and secure campus community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Institute and the most unlike its peers is Artemis Foundation. 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 52 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) — 4% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 44 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 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNCW CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE NYACK LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTEMIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ATELIER 17 PROJECT ↗
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.
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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 The Dorothy M Gillespie Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% 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.
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