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The Gilliam Foundation at a glance

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The Gilliam Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$260kHuman Services$225kHousing & Shelter$200kHealth$60kArts & Culture$55kCivil Rights$50kCommunity Improvement$30kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRAVEN INC$30,000
UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE$25,000
CAB CALLOWAY FUND$20,000
EDGE FOR TOMORROW$20,000
FIRST STATE EDUCATE$20,000
READING ASSIST$15,000
DELAWARE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS$15,000
FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER$10,000
NORTHBAY EDUCATION INC$10,000
WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$10,000
NETWORK DELAWARE$10,000
ROB'S BARBER SHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ROB'S BARBER SHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $20k → 10%NETWORK DELAWARE: $10k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 10%I AM MY SISTER'S KEEPER: $10k → 10%KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 10%FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%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.
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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$280k · 5 repeat orgs$760k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
18

Total granted

$280k
$595k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-8%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DF
    DELAWARE FUTURES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +31%
  • LA
    LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +22%
  • RA
    READING ASSIST INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • RR
    REACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -17%
  • DS
    DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -26%
  • CC
    CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -3356%
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
Delaware Center for Justice

The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.

Crime & Legal
2
Leadership Delaware Inc

Leadership delaware, inc. (ldi) recruits outstanding delawareans and prepares them with the knowledge, vision, integrity and networks to significantly impact and transform their communities, and to excel at community, non-profit,…

Public Benefit
3
Communities in Schools of Delaware Inc

Communities in schools of delaware trains and supports site coordinators who work closely with schools to identify the most vulnerable students, and develop and implement a comprehensive, targeted, and customized plan to get them back on…

Education
4
Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware

To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
5
Delaware Advancement Corporation

To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.

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6
Community Dispute Settlement Program of Delaware County Inc

The organization provides alternative dispute resolution services through delaware and chester counties.

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7
Springboard Delaware

To build affordable housing communities that foster well-being for all delawareans in need.

Housing & Shelter
8
Delaware County Foundation

Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving

Philanthropy
9
Delaware Center for Health Innovation Inc

The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.

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10
Early College School At Delaware State University

To provide highly motivated students with a curriculum that is integrated with the relevant curriculum at delaware state university such that all students graduate with one to two years of college credits, preparing them for completion of…

Education
11
Jobs for Delaware Graduates Inc

Jobs for delaware graduates inc (jdg) is a private non-profit corporation whose mission is to enable students to achieve academic, career, personal, and social success.

Employment
12
Child Inc

To be the leading advocate for delaware's children. we provide creative prevention and treatment programs that meet the changing needs of families. we serve dependent, neglected, and abused children and their parents. we provide programs…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Delaware; the most unlike its peers is Delaware Academy of Vocal Arts Inc. 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

24 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. 24 of the 33 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
8/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YEAR UP: $75,000 · OtherYEAR UPCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $50,000 · OtherCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INCTHE GRAND: $50,000 · OtherTHE GRANDIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $35,000 · OtherWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCBRAVEN INC: $30,000 · OtherBRAVEN INCYMCA-WALNUT STREET BRANCH: $30,000 · OtherYMCA-WALNUT STREET BRANCHSOAR: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $25,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $25,000 · OtherSunday Breakfast Mission: $25,000 · OtherCAB CALLOWAY FUND: $20,000 · OtherEDGE For Tomorrow: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherDELAWARE FUTURES INC: $100,000 · EducationDELAWARE FUTURES INCDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSI…READING ASSIST INSTITUTE: $30,000 · EducationREADING ASSIST INSTITUT…FIRST STATE EDUCATE INC: $20,000 · EducationFIRST STATE EDUCATE INC+1 more: $4,860 · EducationLATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERICA…KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesKINGSWOOD COM…CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND …NETWORK DELAWARE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK DELAW…FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY COUNSE…I AM MY SISTERS KEEPER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesI AM MY SISTE…ROBS BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterREACH RIVERS…ZOE MINISTRIES INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterZOE MINISTRI…CHRISTINA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureOne Village Alliance: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$485,000Education$214,860Human Services$120,000Housing & Shelter$115,000Arts & Culture$55,000Youth Development$25,000Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELAWARE FUTURES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $70,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetZOE MINISTRIES INC: $45,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCHRISTINA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREADING ASSIST INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne Village Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDGE For Tomorrow: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDELAWARE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHBAY EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK DELAWARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetI AM MY SISTERS KEEPER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROBS BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCAB CALLOWAY SCHOOL FUND: $4,860 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Welfare Foundation IncChichester Dupont Fou…Crestlea Foundation I…United Way of DelawareWsfs Cares FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Incyte Charitable Giv…Milton and Hattie Kut…Christiana Care Healt…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE47.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Reach Riverside Development Corp: 100% of income from government
  • Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc: 100% of income from government
  • I Am My Sisters Keeper Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Reading Assist Institute: 99% of income from government
  • Children and Families First: 87% of income from government
  • Delaware Futures Inc: 78% of income from government
  • United Way of Delaware: 58% of income from government
  • Cab Calloway School Fund: 56% of income from government
  • Christiana Care Health System Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: 41% of income from government
  • West End Neighborhood House Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Latin American Community Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Northbay Education Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Neighborhood House Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Kingswood Community Center Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Edge for Tomorrow: 7% of income from government
  • Zoe Ministries Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Delaware Academy of Vocal Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8rely on government for over half their income
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 Gilliam Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gilliam Foundation 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 33 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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