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The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation at a glance

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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
States reached
$700
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2021.

Arts & Culture$32kEducation$30kHealth$19kAnimals$19kInternational$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$750Community Improvement$500Religion$500Other$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$700
Median grant
1
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATHAN YIP FOUNDATION$700
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 (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HANDS OF A CARPENTER: $250 → 7%DENVER HOSPICE: $3k → 12%SHALOM PARK: $50 → 8%PRESENTING DENVER: $300 → 12%PRESENTING DENVER: $100 → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$79k · 9 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$79k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    2× · 2017–2019 · $31k · revenue +64%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    2× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +33%
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $500 · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +129%
  • CH
    Craig Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +41%
  • LG
    LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +22%
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
Colorado Health Institute
Health
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
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.

—
4
The Colorado Prevention Center

Improving health through innovative science and community engagement.

Health
5
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
6
Colorado West Psychiatric Hospital Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care, strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health
7
Pathways Hospice

Honoring every moment of life, pathways hospice provides compassionate, excellent, comprehensive care for those who have an advanced medical condition and those who are grieving.

Human Services
8
Longmont United Hospital

We make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
9
Caring for Denver Foundation

To address denver's mental health and substance misuse needs by growing community informed solutions and turning the community's desire to help into action.

Health
10
Denver Philharmonic Orchestra

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

—
11
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
12
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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is Institute for Children's Mental Disorders. 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

17 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. 17 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $31,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $3,600 · Arts & CultureLION GLOBAL FOUNDATIONGOLDEN RETRIEVERS RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $17,500 · OtherGOLDEN RETRIEVERS RESCUE OF TH…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $6,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTUNIVERSITY OF DENVER - LEO BLOCK ALUMNI CENTER: $1,500 · OtherPROGRESSIVE HEALTH CENTER: $1,000 · Other+6 more: $2,650 · Other+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $21,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE BUONICONTI F…Craig Hospital: $5,000 · HealthCraig Hospital+1 more: $500 · HealthHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $2,600 · Human ServicesPRESENTING DENVER: $400 · Human ServicesSparkHope Automotive: $250 · Human Services+1 more: $50 · Human ServicesDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $1,100 · AnimalsNathan Yip Foundation: $700 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL DISORDERS: $250 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$34,600Other$28,650Education$21,400Health$15,500Human Services$3,300Animals$1,100Philanthropy$950

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

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
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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Denver FoundationThe Chotin Family Fou…Western Union Foundat…Xcel Energy FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lewis D & John J Gilbert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
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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.

    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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