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Bulova Gale 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 $10k24 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES | $13,000 |
| MANASOTA ASALH | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDAT | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA SHARKS INC | $9,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL CARE EDUCATIO | $8,100 |
| HEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE | $7,500 |
| GIRL RISING | $7,500 |
| MAMA'S KITCHEN | $5,600 |
| MEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING | $5,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST INC | $5,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $3,000 |
| PILOTS TO THE RESCUE | $2,500 |
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, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Bulova Gale Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +70% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +62%
University of South Florida Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +132%
NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- HSHONOR SANCTUARY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -15%
- TWTHE WILMA THEATERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +47%
- SCSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -55%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
We pursue bold solutions to end animal agriculture and foster just and compassionate vegan living through education and policy advocacy.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. 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 28 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 61 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 THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA SHARKS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Girl Rising ↗
- Who funds MANASOTA ASALH INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE PULSE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND ↗
- Who funds MINDLEAPS ↗
- Who funds THE WILMA THEATER ↗
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Velmans Foundation Inc · Henry L Kimelman Family Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Galler Family Foundation Inc · Saibel Foundation Inc · The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington Foundation · T Backer Fund Inc · Shoval Foundation · Hrbt 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 Bulova Gale 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Berkshire Pulse Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% 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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