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The Gilbane 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k82 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $186k
- $250k+1 grant · $7.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GILBANE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC | $7,338,992 |
| RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $185,500 |
| ST SEBASTIANS SCHOOL INC | $16,000 |
| DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM | $13,000 |
| DE LA SALLE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| XAVERIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP STEPINAC HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND | $4,000 |
| DEBUTANTE COTILLION AND CHRISTMAS BALL INC | $3,897 |
| NEXT STEP FUND INC | $3,800 |
| BABSON COLLEGE | $3,700 |
| NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| NARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $2,750 |
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 (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 36 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.4M 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
- DBDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM4× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +64%
- BHBUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $17k · revenue +218%
- TGThe Gordon School3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +29%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +167%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +22%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -4%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Philip J Rock Center and School Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 85% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
170 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. 170 of the 217 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GILBANE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds US LACROSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Gordon School ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE DEBUTANTE COTILLION AND CHRISTMAS BALL INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds REFOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT STEP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
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: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Amica Companies Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation
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 Gilbane 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- High Spirit Community Farm Inc — 54% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- The Next Step Fund Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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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