Georgia · Private foundation
The Gilstrap 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.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,010
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 25
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $646k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations The Gilstrap Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 | 23 | $66k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $56k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $86k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $104k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wake Forest University | $71,126 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $31,182 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Houston | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of the Southern Tier Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $17,050 | 3 | n/a |
| The Houston Food Bank | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dress for Success Houston | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Center for Justice and Equity | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gilstrap 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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Mechia Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
About The Gilstrap Foundation
- How much does The Gilstrap Foundation give?
- The Gilstrap Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $71,795 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Gilstrap Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Philanthropy (16%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are The Gilstrap Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Wake Forest University ($71k), Houston Area Women's Center ($31k), United Way of Greater Houston ($30k).
- Does The Gilstrap Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gilstrap 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 Gilstrap Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Gilstrap Foundation based?
- The Gilstrap Foundation is based in GA.
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