Michigan · Private foundation
The Gilbert 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.
- $113M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 140
- Grants FY2024
- 115
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $165,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $19,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 115
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 23
- Total assets, FY2024
- $53M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations The Gilbert Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 139 | $94M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 115 | $94M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 93 | $41M | 99% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $6.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Ford Health System | $31,045,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Enterprise Community Partners Inc | $18,664,408 | 3 | 5% |
| Invest Detroit Foundation | $14,864,980 | 3 | 21% |
| Michigan State University | $9,250,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Nfx | $7,424,488 | 3 | 36% |
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $7,378,852 | 3 | 5% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $7,229,035 | 3 | 0% |
| Downtown Detroit Partnership Inc | $7,148,130 | 3 | 40% |
| United Community Housing Coalition | $5,975,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Chn Housing Partners | $5,532,500 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($36M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gilbert Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · William Davidson Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Gilbert Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Gilbert Family Foundation
- How much does The Gilbert Family Foundation give?
- The Gilbert Family Foundation reported 140 grants totaling $112,876,372 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 115 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Gilbert Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Community Improvement (19%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Gilbert Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Henry Ford Health System ($31M), Enterprise Community Partners Inc ($19M), Invest Detroit Foundation ($15M).
- Does The Gilbert Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gilbert 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gilbert Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation, Hudson-Webber Foundation.
- Where is The Gilbert Family Foundation based?
- The Gilbert Family Foundation is based in MI.
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