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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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$77kArts & Culture$52kPhilanthropy$500Environment$300Crime & Legal$150Other$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$223k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA$500
WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART$500
DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE$250
FINE ARTS CENTER OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY$250
THE ATELIER 17 PROJECT$250
ARTS COUNCIL OF ROCKLAND$215
DREAMS CENTER FOR THE ARTS$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $2k → 17%MUSEUM OF ART DELAND: $2k → 12%BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $2k → 16%TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%UNCW: $2k → 12%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%HOLLINS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 20%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 25%JMU FOUNDATION: $2k → 29%MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART: $2k → 19%NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $2k → 17%BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $2k → 16%TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON: $2k → 12%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%HOLLINS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 20%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 25%MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART: $2k → 19%NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%UCF FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 13%BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $2k → 16%TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON: $2k → 12%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $2k → 8%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%GRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%UCF FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 13%TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON: $2k → 12%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $2k → 8%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $2k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $3k → 13%TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ARTS COUNCIL OF ROCKLAND COUNTY: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%HOLLINS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%HOLLINS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%UCF FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
AL
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 22 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$115k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+13%

Still filing today

59%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $41k · revenue +52%
  • TA
    TENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +140%
  • NIAGARA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2023 · $8k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF ART DELAND
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • JM
    JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +95%
  • UC
    UNCW CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -20%
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.

1
The Academy of Art University Foundation
Human Services
2
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
3
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
6
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

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.

Education
7
Laguna College of Art & Design

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…

Education
8
Montserrat College of Art Inc

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…

Education
9
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
10
Susquehanna University

Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.

Education
11
Vermont College of Fine Arts Inc

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…

Education
12
Trinity College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryland Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $40,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCTENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10,500 · EducationTENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATIONHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $9,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationNIAGARA UNIVERSITYROANOKE COLLEGE: $5,333 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGEMaryland Institute: $3,100 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Education+4 more: $4,000 · EducationRADFORD UNIVERSITY: $9,001 · OtherRADFORD UNIVERSITYBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $4,500 · OtherBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON: $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WI…UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $3,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTL…UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDATHE DANCE FOUNDATION: $2,450 · OtherTHE DANCE FOUNDATIONMUSEUM OF ART DELAND: $2,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF ART DELANDARTS COUNCIL OF ROCKLAND COUNTY: $1,500 · Other+15 more: $6,175 · Other+15 moreTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,500 · Arts & CultureTAUBMAN M…DELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $1,300 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE …GRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,125 · Arts & CultureGRANDIN T…WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN'S C…ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC: $750 · Arts & CultureORLANDO M…ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $465 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyROCA INC: $150 · Youth Development
Education$82,933Other$36,226Arts & Culture$10,640Philanthropy$500Youth Development$150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $40,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $5,333 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Institute: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCW CORPORATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $1,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART: $1,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDA VINCI ART ALLIANCE: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NYACK LIBRARY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL HERITAGE TRUST: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF ROCKLAND INC: $215 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNCW CORPORATION ↗
  • 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 NYACK LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds ARTEMIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ATELIER 17 PROJECT ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Dorothy M Gillespie Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorothy M Gillespie Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to The Dorothy M Gillespie Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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