Delaware · Private foundation
The Gilliam Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $190k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Gilliam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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 | 12 | $190k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $160k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $180k | 86% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $200k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $125k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $185k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware Futures Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Reach Riverside Development Corp | $70,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Delaware State University Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Christiana Care Health System Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Zoe Ministries Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Latin American Community Center Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West End Neighborhood House Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Reading Assist Institute | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friendship House Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($295k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gilliam Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation · Christiana Care Health Services Inc
How this is measured
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About The Gilliam Foundation
- How much does The Gilliam Foundation give?
- The Gilliam Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $190,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Gilliam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (22%), Housing & Shelter (19%).
- Who are The Gilliam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Delaware Futures Inc ($100k), Reach Riverside Development Corp ($70k), Delaware State University Foundation Inc ($60k).
- Does The Gilliam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gilliam Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gilliam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Laffey-McHugh Foundation.
- Where is The Gilliam Foundation based?
- The Gilliam Foundation is based in DE.
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