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.

The Gillette Foundation

The Gillette Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$26k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$519k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STRATFORD HALL	$5,000
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT	$5,000
HUI NO'EAU VISUAL ARTS CENTER	$2,000
SYC CARES FOUNDATION	$2,000
K9S FOR WARRIORS	$2,000
MAYO CLINIC	$1,000
RIVERSIDE THEATER	$1,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH	$1,000
BUSHNELL VETERINARY SERVICE ANGEL FUND	$1,000
THE SAWGRASS FOUNDATION	$1,000
LES CHENEAUX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
THE JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION	$500
LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL	$500
JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE	$500
INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST	$500

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$277k · 31 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$277k

$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+18%

Still filing today

68%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

SH
STRATFORD HALL
8× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +6%
HN
HUI NO'EAU
9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +16%
TL
THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN
4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +84%

Funded once

CO
CHURCH OF HOLY INNOCENTS
one grant, 2020 · $8k
LR
LILY'S RAINBOW MEMORIAL FUND - ST CHRYSOSTOM'S DAY SCHOOL & FLOWER GARDEN
one grant, 2022 · $1k
FB
Forest Bluff Schoolgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +150%

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.

Leelanau Conservancy

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.

Environment

Lake Forest College

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…

Education

Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment

Door County Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment

Minnesota Land Trust

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.

Environment

Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

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…

Environment

Naples Zoo Inc

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…

Animals

Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

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…

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Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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Longhouse Reserve

Longhouse reserve inspires living with art in all forms. founded by jack lenor larsen, its collections, gardens, art and programs reflect world cultures.

Education

Lincoln Park Zoological Society

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…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association; 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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/34

Grantees still filing

23/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$188,520Arts & Culture$56,100Education$17,925Animals$15,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$10,000Environment$7,700

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gillette Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gillette Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

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