· Private foundation
The William G Gilmore Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k68 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k9 grants · $975k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $247,500 |
| CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $137,500 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PORTLAND | $75,000 |
| CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| EDWARDS WORK-ACTIVITY CENTER INC | $55,000 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND INC | $50,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| INSIGHT HOUSING | $40,000 |
| SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION | $40,000 |
| MARY ELIZABETH INN | $30,000 |
| STERN GROVE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
120 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +3%
OREGON FOOD BANK2× · 2020–2022 · $910k · revenue +7%
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $865k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $50k
ROSE HAVEN CICgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +41%- SMST MARY'S ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.
We build community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions.
We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
Caminar builds strength and stability through comprehensive mental health and substance use treatment delivered through evidence-based, whole-person care.
To enhance the lives of people with developmental and other disabilities by creating quality, affordable housing options.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Capes and Crowns Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 139 of the 176 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART ↗
- Who funds EDWARDS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid at Work ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY ↗
- Who funds AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds Stern Grove Festival Association ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds MBOLDEN CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Alive and Free ↗
- Who funds TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Mary Elizabeth Inn The ↗
- Who funds Central City Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds CITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way of the Bay Area · Bothin Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The William G Gilmore Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Abilities at Work — 95% of income from government
- Edwards Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Portland Opportunities Indust Center — 38% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Camp 45 Contemporary Converge 45 — 8% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Cascadia Health — 3% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.