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The Gilreath Foundation at a glance

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The Gilreath 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$109kEducation$105kHousing & Shelter$50kCommunity Improvement$46kYouth Development$44kHealth$38kInternational$10kSocial Science$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$749k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION$10,000
A CHILD'S HAVEN$10,000
SUSTAINING WAY$10,000
SAFE HARBOR INC$10,000
SEEDS OF HOPE CHILDREN'S OUTREACH$10,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%MUST MINISTRIES: $5k → 8%HOPE HOUSE COLORADO: $7k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $10k → 10%ANCHOR HOUSE INC: $10k → 11%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 10%HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $20k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $13k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$272k · 9 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$272k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+46%

Still filing today

89%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsReligionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SW
    SUSTAINING WAY
    4× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +121%
  • MV
    MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES
    2× · 2018–2022 · $30k · revenue +114%
  • YI
    YOUTHBASE INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • RU
    REBUILD UPSTATE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • IH
    I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -43%
  • UM
    UU MONTESSORI WORLD OF CHILDREN
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
2
Activate Work Inc

We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.

Human Services
3
The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International
4
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
5
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
6
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
7
Livewell Greenville

Livewell greenville's mission is to increase access to healthy foods and active living opportunities by convening community members and partners to impact policies, systems, and environmental changes.

Youth Development
8
Achieveability

Strives to permanently break the cycle of poverty for philadelphia families

Housing & Shelter
9
United Way of Lewis County

The mission of united way of lewis county (uwlc) is connecting people and resources to improve the quality of life in lewis county. uwlc has evolved from its roots as a fundraising organization to a critical community impact organization…

Philanthropy
10
Greenhouse Scholars

Sustainable, generational change in under-resourced communities has proven difficult to achieve. greenhouse is changing that paradigm by working from within partnering with the most inspiring young leaders and surrounding them with a…

Education
11
United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc

To advance an economically just region where prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.

Philanthropy
12
Georgia Appleseed Inc

The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to keep children in school and on a path to success by providing legal services and representation, leading law and policy reform, growing a statewide community of advocates, and collaborating with…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Child's Haven Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Family Effect. 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

22 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. 22 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A Child's Haven Inc: $37,500 · OtherA Child's Haven IncI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $19,000 · OtherI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATIONUU MONTESSORI WORLD OF CHILDREN: $10,000 · OtherUU MONTESSORI WORLD OF CHILDRENIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSEEDS OF HOPE CHILDREN'S OUTREACH: $10,000 · OtherSEEDS OF HOPE CHILDREN'S OUTREACHIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBON SECOURS ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $9,000 · OtherBON SECOURS ST FRANCIS FOUNDATIONIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · OtherTHE FAMILY EFFECT: $7,500 · OtherTHE FAMILY EFFECT+4 more: $1,600 · OtherSAFE HARBOR INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR INCMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $30,000 · Human ServicesMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIESHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $17,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADOALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $10,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATI…ANCHOR HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesANCHOR HOUSE INCMust Ministries Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $39,500 · EducationGREENVILLE TECH FOU…PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $25,000 · EducationPUBLIC EDUCATION PA…Atlanta Speech School Inc: $8,000 · EducationAtlanta Speech Scho…LAKES AND BRIDGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationLAKES AND BRIDGES C…REBUILD UPSTATE: $50,000 · ReligionREBUILD UPST…SUSTAINING WAY: $35,500 · Community ImprovementYOUTHBASE INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$134,600Human Services$115,000Education$77,500Religion$50,000Community Improvement$35,500Youth Development$25,000Crime & Legal$12,500

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 budgetREBUILD UPSTATE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $43,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $39,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSUSTAINING WAY: $35,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTHBASE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $17,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetANCHOR HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY EFFECT: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKES AND BRIDGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Scansource Charitable…The Jolley FoundationScsymmes FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…Duke Energy FoundationUnited Way of Greenvi…Dabo's All in Team Fo…Sisters of Charity Fo…Hollingsworth Funds I…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Local Boys Do GoodSisk Foundation Bunco…
Scansource Charitable FoundationSC28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scansource Charitable Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Local Boys Do Good · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • Anchor House Inc: 45% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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.

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 29 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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