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The Gildea Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Gildea Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$309kEducation$271kAnimals$190kScience & Tech$143kArts & Culture$101kFood & Nutrition$60kYouth Development$55kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION$30,000
ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$30,000
MUW FOUNDATION$15,000
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION$10,000
ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION OF THE US$10,000
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF MUSTANGS & BURROS$10,000
COLUMBUS CIVIC ARTS COUNCIL INC$10,000
BAHAMAS PLASTIC MOVEMENT$10,000
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST$10,000
SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE$10,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 24%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

NH
MN
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
SC
DC
LA
MS
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of The Gildea Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Gildea Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.2% directed abroad (not shown)
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.
$1.0M · 19 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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17

Total granted

$1.0M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+78%

Still filing today

84%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +216%
  • ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $76k · revenue +16%
  • SC
    South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +177%

Funded once

  • MR
    MARKETING RESEARCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -18%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +139%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
4
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
7
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
8
Natura Bolivia Foundation

The Natura Bolivia Foundation is dedicated to implementing, and evaluating the impact of conservation and development programs, with a focus on watershed conservation, protected areas, and incentive based conservation in Bolivia. We work…

International
9
The Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
11
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
12
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Natural Health. 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

27 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. 27 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF MUSTANGS AND BURROS: $110,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF MUSTAN…COLUMBUS CIVIC ARTS COUNCIL INC: $78,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS CIVIC ARTS COUNCIL INCMUW FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherMUW FOUNDATIONSTARKVILLE STRINGS SCHOOL INC: $45,000 · OtherSTARKVILLE STRINGS SCHOOL INCMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $42,500 · OtherMississippi State University Foundation IncINFINITY SCIENCE CENTER INC: $42,500 · OtherINFINITY SCIENCE CENTER INCONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION+11 more: $93,000 · Other+11 moreSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $70,500 · EnvironmentSouth Carolina Coast…OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE…NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $30,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL G…Bahamas Plastic Movement Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentBahamas Plastic Move…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentTAMPA BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $3,500 · EnvironmentCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · InternationalCAPE ELEUT…RAINFOREST TRUST: $10,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · International+1 more: $3,000 · InternationalASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 · EducationASTRONAUT…MARKETING RESEARCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationMARKETING…ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · Public BenefitSouth Carolina Aquarium: $50,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER: $20,000 · AnimalsRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC: $10,000 · AnimalsFRESH FUTURE FARM INC: $60,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$516,000Environment$209,000International$108,000Education$95,500Public Benefit$90,000Animals$80,000Food & Nutrition$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF MUSTANGS AND BURROS: $110,000 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION: $90,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $70,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH FUTURE FARM INC: $60,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $50,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINFINITY SCIENCE CENTER INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBahamas Plastic Movement Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetCOLORADO WOLF AND WILDLIFE CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMARKETING RESEARCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCREATE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTAMPA BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival: $8,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE COLLECTIVE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 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.

Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Tampa Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Gildea Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Gildea Foundation Inc 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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home