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The Gilman Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$100kArts & Culture$82kHousing & Shelter$63kEnvironment$28kHealth$18kAnimals$14kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$877k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER ACADEMY$11,000
ST FRANCIS CENTER$10,000
SYMPHONY OF THE ROCKIES$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION$5,000
THACHER SCHOOL$3,000
MESA VERDE FOUNDATION$3,000
CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION$2,400
DENVER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$2,000
DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS$2,000
BLACK BELT FOUNDATION$2,000
HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY$1,000
HUMANE COLORADO$1,000
COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO$1,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS$1,000
DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THACHER SCHOOL: $3k → 10%MESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THACHER SCHOOL: $3k → 10%CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 7%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE: $2k → 12%THE THACHER SCHOOL: $2k → 10%MESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 7%MESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%ST FRANCIS CENTER: $16k → 12%CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 7%ST FRANCIS CENTER: $14k → 12%MESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%ST FRANCIS CENTER: $10k → 12%ST FRANCIS CENTER: $10k → 12%MESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%ST FRANCIS CENTER: $5k → 12%SAINT FRANCIS CENTER: $2k → 12%SAINT FRANCIS CENTER: $2k → 12%ST FRANCIS CENTER: $2k → 12%SAINT FRANCIS CENTER: $2k → 12%DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $2k → 12%DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $2k → 12%BLACK BELT FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $2k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $5k → 12%DENVER ACADEMY: $20k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $5k → 12%DENVER ACADEMY: $16k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $3k → 12%DENVER ACADEMY: $11k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $2k → 12%DENVER ACADEMY: $10k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $2k → 12%DENVER ACADEMY: $8k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $2k → 12%DENVER ACADEMY: $5k → 12%DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS: $2k → 12%DENVER ACADEMY: $4k → 12%DENVER ACADEMY: $3k → 12%DENVER ACADEMY: $3k → 12%ALTHEA CENTER: $6k → 12%ALTHEA CENTER: $3k → 12%ALTHEA CENTER FOR ENGAGED SPIRITUALITY: $2k → 12%DENVER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 12%DENVER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $2k → 12%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 29 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
3

Total granted

$311k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+64%

Still filing today

72%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DA
    DENVER ACADEMY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +5%
  • TS
    THE ST FRANCIS CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +42%
  • DB
    DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +32%
  • MV
    MESA VERDE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +64%
  • HC
    HIGHLINE CANAL CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250
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
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau

To bring conventions and leisure visitors to denver for the economic benefit of the city, the community, and our partners.

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3
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
4
Denver Philharmonic Orchestra

To continually redefine the way our community experiences and engages with classical music

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5
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
6
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
7
Denver Bar Association

To promote justice, its administration, and its availability to all sectors of society; to support and assist the membership in the delivery of legal services; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar, and foster respect for the legal…

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8
Colorado Bar Association

To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…

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9
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

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10
Denver Children's Choir

To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.

Arts & Culture
11
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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12
Denver Botanic Gardens Endowment

Protect the financial security and mission of denver botanic gardens.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Center for the Performing Arts; the most unlike its peers is Mesa Verde Foundation. 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

23 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. 23 of the 34 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)
23/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ST FRANCIS CENTER: $62,500 · OtherTHE ST FRANCIS CENTERALTHEA CENTER: $9,700 · OtherALTHEA CENTERBLACK BELT FOUNDATION: $5,500 · OtherBLACK BELT FOUNDATIONSYMPHONY OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 · OtherHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $3,750 · OtherCENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE: $3,500 · Other+7 more: $11,250 · Other+7 moreDENVER ACADEMY INC: $78,646 · EducationDENVER ACADEMY INCThe Thacher School Inc: $13,000 · EducationThe Thacher School Inc+2 more: $2,500 · EducationMESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $12,100 · Arts & CultureMESA VERDE FOUNDATIONDENVER ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENTER FOR THE PE…CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $8,400 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE…Colorado Museum of Natural History: $7,500 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natur…PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $7,350 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF C…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $6,850 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC ME…COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,250 · Arts & CultureDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $23,500 · EnvironmentChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 · HealthBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $4,600 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,000 · HealthDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $8,700 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $4,750 · AnimalsFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$101,200Education$94,146Arts & Culture$68,450Environment$23,500Health$15,600Animals$13,450Food & Nutrition$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER ACADEMY INC: $78,646 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ST FRANCIS CENTER: $62,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $23,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $12,100 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $8,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $8,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $7,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $6,850 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $4,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $3,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO BALLET: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMANCE NOW THEATRE COMPANY: $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESA VERDE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds DENVER ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ST FRANCIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
  • Who funds MESA VERDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO BALLET ↗
  • Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PERFORMANCE NOW THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds MESA VERDE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…Amg Charitable Gift F…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 34 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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