How much does Arthur J Gallagher Foundation give?

Arthur J Gallagher Foundation reported 2,692 grants totaling $1,614,360 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 793 and 977 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Arthur J Gallagher Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Education (18%), Health (15%).

Who are Arthur J Gallagher Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: St Agnes School ($600k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($158k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($104k).

Does Arthur J Gallagher Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Arthur J Gallagher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur J Gallagher Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, Efs Foundation.

Where is Arthur J Gallagher Foundation based?

Arthur J Gallagher Foundation is based in IL.

Arthur J Gallagher Foundation

Arthur J Gallagher Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Arthur J Gallagher 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.

$1.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

2,692

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$1.9MEducation$1.6MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$544kPublic Safety & Disaster$496kInternational$456kFood & Nutrition$282kAnimals$244kOther$0

02FY2024 · 2692 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2685 grants · $1.3M
$10k–50k4 grants · $62k
$50k–250k3 grants · $267k

$250

Median grant

States reached

$6.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST AGNES OF BOHEMIA SCHOOL	$100,000
Individual grant recipient	$100,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS	$67,349
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC	$19,981
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION	$15,161
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC	$14,443
ST BALDRICKS FOUNDATION INC	$12,090
SPECIAL OLYMPICS AUSTRALIA	$9,268
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS	$8,995
WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC	$6,861
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC	$6,686
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY	$6,469
SAMARITANS PURSE	$6,257
FEEDING AMERICA	$6,164
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC	$5,827

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.3M · 1433 repeat orgs$704k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

1433 repeat relationships: 791 still active in FY2024, 642 since wound down; 138 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1433

411

Total granted

$6.3M

$520k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+26%

Still filing today

53%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
6× · 2019–2024 · $158k · revenue +39%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $104k · revenue +99%
Save The Children Federation Inc
4× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue +1%

Funded once

AR
American Red Cross of Illinois
one grant, 2021 · $27k
NZ
New Zealand Red Cross Incorporated
one grant, 2023 · $9k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $8k

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.

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

Jewish Family and Children's Service

To support people of all backgrounds to reach their full potential.

Human Services

Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.

—

Child Health and Development Institute

To ensure healthy outcomes for all children in connecticut by advancing effective policies, stronger systems, and innovative practices.

Human Services

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hayrenaser. 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

1105 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. 1105 of the 2,000 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

169

Early backer (in before they grew)

1080/1105

Grantees still filing

796/1105

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,443,259Health$503,434Human Services$247,360International$230,615Education$102,000Food & Nutrition$81,481Philanthropy$53,264

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex FoundationIL30.9× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Efs Foundation · Foglia Family Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Service Club of Chicago · Accent Charitable Fund · Alliant Credit Union Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc · Clearwater Capital Foundation · Leopardo Charitable Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization

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 Arthur J Gallagher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur J Gallagher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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