· Private foundation
The Gibb Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GETTYSBURG COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| ECU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HARCUM COLLEGE | $5,300 |
| WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,300 |
| PITMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGETTYSBURG COLLEGE6× · 2019–2025 · $123k · revenue +16%
- LVLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE5× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +23%
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE5× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- NUNEUMANN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue +13%
- RSRICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $14k
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.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEUMANN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARCUM COLLEGE ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gibb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gibb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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