Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Gildea Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $155k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Gildea Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $155k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $133k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $133k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $143k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $108k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $123k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $135k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $117k | 54% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros | $110,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Organic Consumers Association | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Inc | $75,500 | 7 | 1% |
| South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc | $70,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Fresh Future Farm Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| South Carolina Aquarium | $50,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Starkville Strings School Inc | $45,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Mississippi State University Foundation Inc | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gildea Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Gildea Foundation Inc
- How much does The Gildea Foundation Inc give?
- The Gildea Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $155,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gildea Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Education (23%), Animals (16%).
- Who are The Gildea Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros ($110k), Organic Consumers Association ($90k), Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc ($90k).
- Does The Gildea Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gildea Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gildea Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Network for Good.
- Where is The Gildea Foundation Inc based?
- The Gildea Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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