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Bob & Marie Gallo 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.
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 $10k20 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $722k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SONOMA COUNTY | $200,000 |
| WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| ST STANISLAUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $122,075 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $41,200 |
| SISTERS OF THE CROSS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS | $30,825 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| BISHOP'S MINISTRY APPEAL | $20,000 |
| SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CAL POLY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
49 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 11 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- GCGALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $224k · revenue +11%
- SCSigma Chi Foundation2× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +69%
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NDNOTRE DAME DE NAMUR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $210k · revenue +25%
- PFPACIFIC FLYWAY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +225%
- AOAG ONEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +56%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Rangeland Trust and the most unlike its peers is Crickets Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 122 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 SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Stanislaus Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC FLYWAY FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Daughters of Charity Foundation ↗
- Who funds AG ONE ↗
- Who funds GRIOT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Sprouts Chef Training ↗
- Who funds St Helena Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN THE BAPTIST HEALDSBURG SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLABRIA CARE ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MODESTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Stanislaus Community Foundation · Julio R Gallo Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Reed Foundation · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · Ernest Gallo Foundation
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 Bob & Marie Gallo 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.
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