· Private foundation
The Richard and Ellen Gilleland 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.
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 $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EISENHOWER HEALTH | $105,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $100,000 |
| CROWN COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY VENTURA CITY | $10,000 |
| LELAND STANFORD JR UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| THE VINTAGE CLUB EMP SCHOLARSHIP FU | $4,000 |
| BANDINI FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE ARK CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EMEisenhower Medical Center6× · 2020–2025 · $785k · revenue +66%
- MVMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC2× · 2020–2021 · $110k · revenue +46%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UUUCSF UNIVERSITY DEVELOPEMENT ALUMNIone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
- SHSACRED HEART CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $11k
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
The mission of vanguard university is to pursue knowledge, cultivate character, deepen faith, and equip each student for a spirit-empowered life of christ-centered leadership and service.
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…
The primary purpose of loma linda university health(lluh) is to help coordinate the healing ministry of the seventh-day adventist church. this function is accomplished by managing the various schools and hospitals of lluh's core and…
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 53 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.
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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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Richard and Ellen Gilleland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard and Ellen Gilleland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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