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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 FY2024still arriving
140
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$19M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$75MCommunity Improvement$49MEducation$37MHousing & Shelter$32MPhilanthropy$31MCrime & Legal$8.4MArts & Culture$8.0MScience & Tech$4.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 140 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $592k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $4.7M
  • $250k+61 grants · $108M
$165,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$19,200,000
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$16,515,000
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS$8,164,408
INVEST DETROIT$6,880,880
WAYNE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$3,893,568
CHN HOUSING PARTNERS$2,907,500
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$2,625,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$2,621,931
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY$2,599,838
DOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP$2,502,480
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY$2,500,000
UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION$2,408,334
M1 RAIL$1,600,000
MICHIGAN LEGAL SERVICES$1,563,500
LAKESHORE LEGAL AID$1,528,589
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%A SENSE OF HOME: $100k → 14%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JARC: $29k → 8%JARC: $1k → 8%JSL FOUNDATION: $250 → 8%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $13k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $10k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $293k → 21%BASBLUE: $160k → 21%BASBLUE: $75k → 21%BASBLUE: $50k → 21%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY: $5k → 21%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

ME
VT
WA
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IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of The Gilbert Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 70%.

The Gilbert Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$206M · 92 repeat orgs$29M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

92 repeat relationships: 67 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 72 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
57

Total granted

$206M
$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+8%

Still filing today

76%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $31M · revenue +18%
  • ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $19M · revenue +38%
  • INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CR
    CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $700k · revenue +22%
  • GH
    GREEN & HEALTH HOMES
    one grant, 2023 · $672k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $550k
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
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
2
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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3
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
4
Endeavor Detroit

Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…

Community Improvement
5
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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6
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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7
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
8
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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9
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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10
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.

Health
11
The Center for Michigan

For all state residents, diverse civic stakeholders and philanthropy, the center for michigan (the center) and its nonprofit newsrooms - bridge michigan and bridgedetroit - make michigan better through high-quality, nonpartisan journalism…

Public Benefit
12
Michigan Chamber Foundation

1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Shamrock 555 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

139 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. 139 of the 224 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.

23
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/139
Grantees still filing
77/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $18,664,408 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTN…INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $14,864,980 · Community ImprovementINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATIONDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC: $7,148,130 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSH…Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $3,893,568 · Community ImprovementWayne-Metropolitan Communi…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $3,466,170 · Community ImprovementWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RES…VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC: $2,076,000 · Community ImprovementDetroit Development Fund: $2,010,131 · Community Improvement+17 more: $7,369,239 · Community Improvement+17 moreHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $31,045,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMNFX: $7,424,488 · HealthNFXTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $7,229,035 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL O…Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc: $3,013,751 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,108,417 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,896,438 · Health+19 more: $4,039,719 · Health+19 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MI: $11,902,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEA…MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $9,250,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,779,339 · OtherBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $2,634,014 · Other+124 more: $45,198,476 · Other+124 moreCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $7,378,852 · EducationCRANBROOK E…DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,000,000 · EducationDELAWARE ST…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,749,497 · EducationWASHINGTON …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,621,931 · EducationJOHNS HOPKI…COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $1,797,500 · EducationCOLLEGE FOR…STRATEGIC COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $1,669,250 · EducationSTRATEGIC C…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,159,988 · Education+6 more: $1,478,829 · Education+6 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $19,200,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $323,282 · PhilanthropyUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $5,975,000 · Housing & ShelterCHN HOUSING PARTNERS: $5,532,500 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $202,500 · Housing & ShelterMICHIGAN LEGAL SERVICES: $4,230,166 · Crime & LegalLakeshore Legal Aid: $4,195,255 · Crime & LegalGIVE MERIT INC: $900,000 · Crime & Legal
Community Improvement$59,492,626Health$56,756,848Other$72,763,829Education$24,855,847Philanthropy$19,523,282Housing & Shelter$11,710,000Crime & Legal$9,325,421

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $31,045,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $19,200,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $18,664,408 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $14,864,980 over 3y, 21% of budgetNFX: $7,424,488 over 3y, 36% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $7,378,852 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $7,229,035 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC: $7,148,130 over 3y, 40% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $5,975,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCHN HOUSING PARTNERS: $5,532,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,000,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMICHIGAN LEGAL SERVICES: $4,230,166 over 3y, 56% of budgetLakeshore Legal Aid: $4,195,255 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $3,893,568 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,749,497 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $3,466,170 over 3y, 23% of budgetBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $2,634,014 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,621,931 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $2,408,945 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,108,417 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC: $2,076,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetDetroit Development Fund: $2,010,131 over 3y, 21% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $1,900,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,896,438 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $1,797,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetE WARREN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,750,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetSTRATEGIC COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $1,669,250 over 3y, 52% of budgetM-1 RAIL: $1,600,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $1,600,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHuman-I-T: $1,371,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,361,620 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,159,988 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1,089,900 over 1y, 26% of budgetGIVE MERIT INC: $900,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH): $755,850 over 1y, 64% of budgetGREEN LIVING SCIENCE: $738,500 over 3y, 65% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $700,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINDUSTRIAL SEWING AND INNOVATION CENTER: $570,000 over 2y, 14% of budget360 DETROIT INC: $570,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $531,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $517,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSAGE BIONETWORKS: $511,172 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBUILD INSTITUTE: $507,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetPROJECT EVERGREEN FOUNDATION INC: $475,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetCULTURESOURCE: $475,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $448,829 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC: $431,345 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $400,000 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Kresge FoundationHudson-Webber Foundat…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…DTE Energy FoundationThe Fred & Barbara Er…The Skillman Foundati…WK Kellogg FoundationUnited Way for Southe…William Davidson Foun…Ford PhilanthropyGilbert Family Founda…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI78.5× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Gilbert Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gilbert Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Delaware State University: 18% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to The Gilbert Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gilbert Family Foundation 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 224 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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