Colorado · Private foundation
The Gilman Family 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.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $877k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Gilman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 22 | $55k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $45k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $47k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $51k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $25k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $35k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $23k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Academy Inc | $78,646 | 9 | 0% |
| The St Francis Center | $62,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Denver Botanic Gardens Inc | $23,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Thacher School Inc | $13,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mesa Verde Foundation | $12,100 | 6 | 1% |
| Denver Art Museum | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Denver Center for the Performing Arts | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Althea Center | $9,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $8,700 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gilman Family 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Gilman Family Foundation
- How much does The Gilman Family Foundation give?
- The Gilman Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $55,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gilman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (26%), Housing & Shelter (20%).
- Who are The Gilman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Denver Academy Inc ($79k), The St Francis Center ($63k), Denver Botanic Gardens Inc ($24k).
- Does The Gilman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gilman Family 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 Gilman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
- Where is The Gilman Family Foundation based?
- The Gilman Family Foundation is based in CO.
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