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THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON

THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,625,339 to it, the largest being MICHAEL AND MARIAN ILITCH FOUNDATION ($2,100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$151k
Revenue FY2025
20
Funders on record
$4.6M
Grants received
$339k
Net assets
6/20 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON is better cushioned than half of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve9.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($644k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($773k)2019 Revenue 14 ($88k) Expenses 1197 ($1.1M) Net assets 33 ($255k)2020 Revenue 5 ($35k) Expenses 30 ($27k) Net assets 34 ($263k)2021 Revenue 9 ($55k) Expenses 16 ($14k) Net assets 50 ($390k)2022 Revenue 1 ($8k) Expenses 15 ($13k) Net assets 46 ($357k)2023 Revenue 0 ($-2658) Expenses 40 ($35k) Net assets 48 ($369k)2024 Revenue 2 ($11k) Expenses 50 ($44k) Net assets 49 ($377k)2025 Revenue 23 ($151k) Expenses 89 ($78k) Net assets 44 ($339k)
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Revenue (23)Expenses (89)Net assets (44)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $22k → $123k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
4
4
1
2
4
3
4
7
5

From the IRS filings of THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 80% · 2022 40% · 2023 81% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

13% of THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
CA
CO
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Irving S Gilmore Foundation74%The Reid Family Foundation74%The Riley Gleason Foundation72%The Gerber Foundation71%The Webster Foundation70%Monroe-Brown Foundation70%The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation69%Sigma Gamma Foundation69%

Nationally

The Gibson Family Foundation96%Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives93%The Giblin Family Foundation81%The Gillespie Foundation80%Gibbet Hill Foundation79%Griffith Family Foundation79%Gillespie Foundation78%The Wilson Foundation78%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON?
THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,625,339 to it, the largest being MICHAEL AND MARIAN ILITCH FOUNDATION ($2,100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $4,625,339 in grants to THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON?
MICHAEL AND MARIAN ILITCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing