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The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$700
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$700
Largest grant, FY2021
$700
Organizations funded a year
1 to 14
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$18k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$700100%
FY20202$7500%
FY201914$44k57%
FY20184$12k50%
FY201712$48kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$32kEducation$30kHealth$19kAnimals$19kInternational$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$750Community Improvement$500Religion$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Denver Center for the Performing Arts$31,00020%
University of Denver$21,40020%
The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis Inc$10,00010%
Craig Hospital$5,00010%
Lion Global Foundation$3,60010%
Hospice of Metro Denver Inc$2,60010%
Denver Dumb Friends League$1,10010%
Progressive Health Center$1,00020%
Volunteers of America Inc$7502n/a
Nathan Yip Foundation$70010%
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Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDenver Center for the Performing Arts: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $21,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCraig Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLion Global Foundation: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Metro Denver Inc: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProgressive Health Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNathan Yip Foundation: $700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Corporation for Public Broadcasting: $600 over 2y, 30% of budgetJunior League of Denver Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health Center of Denver: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresenting Denver: $400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Children's Mental Disorders: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShalom Park: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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 FoundationCO22.3× affinity9 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 · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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How do I get to The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lewis D & John J Gilbert 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.

About The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation

How much does The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation give?
The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $700 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (28%), Health (18%).
Who are The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Denver Center for the Performing Arts ($31k), University of Denver ($21k), The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis Inc ($10k).
Does The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lewis D & John J Gilbert 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 Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Amg Charitable Gift Foundation.
Where is The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation based?
The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation is based in CO.

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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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