· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRATFORD HALL | $5,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $5,000 |
| SYC CARES FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| K9S FOR WARRIORS | $2,000 |
| HUI NO'EAU VISUAL ARTS CENTER | $2,000 |
| LES CHENEAUX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATER | $1,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| BUSHNELL VETERINARY SERVICE ANGEL FUND | $1,000 |
| THE SAWGRASS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,000 |
| THE LEARNING ALLIANCE | $500 |
| THE JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION | $500 |
| LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SHSTRATFORD HALL8× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +6%
- HNHUI NO'EAU9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +16%
- TLTHE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF HOLY INNOCENTSone grant, 2020 · $8k
- LRLILY'S RAINBOW MEMORIAL FUND - ST CHRYSOSTOM'S DAY SCHOOL & FLOWER GARDENone grant, 2022 · $1k
- CACHICAGO AREA SERVICE OFFICEone grant, 2019 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Longhouse reserve inspires living with art in all forms. founded by jack lenor larsen, its collections, gardens, art and programs reflect world cultures.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association and the most unlike its peers is Art Empowerment for Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds HUI NO'EAU ↗
- Who funds ART EMPOWERMENT FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAWGRASS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds SYC CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR POST INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Bluff School ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Gillette Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.