· Private foundation
The Merle E & Olive Lee Gilliand Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY | $106,869 |
| WARREN WILSON COLLEGE | $6,869 |
| FOX CHAPEL PRESB CHURCH | $6,869 |
| PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $3,434 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $3,434 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,434 |
| SHADY SIDE ACADEMY | $3,434 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Merle E & Olive Lee Gilliand Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT8× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +29%
- BHBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2019–2023 · $185k · revenue +9%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- GFGILLILAND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $40k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +49%
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.
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PITCARE INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Merle E & Olive Lee Gilliand Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Merle E & Olive Lee Gilliand Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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