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The Gillette Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$519k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Gillette Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$25k28%
FY202417$26k24%
FY202316$29k13%
FY202220$33k40%
FY202114$27k21%
FY202021$40k52%
FY201922$40k27%
FY201818$41k22%
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$111kReligion$87kHealth$25kEducation$23kAnimals$17kEnvironment$15kHousing & Shelter$10kPublic Benefit$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
VA
KS
TN
DC
HI
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stratford Hall$47,20080%
Church of the Holy Spirit$46,7009n/a
Hui No'Eau$35,75091%
Church of the Holy Innocents$15,0003n/a
Art Empowerment for Life$12,0006100%
The Lake County Haven$10,00040%
Shedd Aquarium Society$8,00040%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center$7,50050%
K9s for Warriors Inc$7,00050%
Les Cheneaux Foundation$6,975667%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Gillette Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStratford Hall: $47,200 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHui No'Eau: $35,750 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetArt Empowerment for Life: $12,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetThe Lake County Haven: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetShedd Aquarium Society: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Arts & Cultural Center: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLes Cheneaux Foundation: $6,975 over 6y, 67% of budgetSawgrass Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLake Forest Academy: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLes Cheneaux Culinary School Inc: $4,825 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $4,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJohn's Island Community Service League Inc: $3,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Learning Alliance Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJamestown Foundation: $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIndian River Land Trust Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Woman's Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSyc Cares Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCedar Post Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLake Forest Open Lands Association: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRiverside Theatre Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForest Bluff School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest Garden Club: $400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDogs for Life Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElawa Farm Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Butler Family FoundationIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Butler Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Seven C Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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.

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About The Gillette Foundation

How much does The Gillette Foundation give?
The Gillette Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $25,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Gillette Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Religion (29%), Health (8%).
Who are The Gillette Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stratford Hall ($47k), Church of the Holy Spirit ($47k), Hui No'Eau ($36k).
Does The Gillette Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gillette 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 Gillette Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Butler Family Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Red Bird Hollow Foundation.
Where is The Gillette Foundation based?
The Gillette Foundation is based in FL.

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 62 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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