How much does Bulova Gale Foundation give?

Bulova Gale Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $139,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Bulova Gale Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (14%), Animals (10%).

Who are Bulova Gale Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Trustees of Grinnell College ($140k), Hevreh of Southern Berkshire Inc ($74k), University of South Florida Foundation Inc ($70k).

Does Bulova Gale Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bulova Gale 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 Bulova Gale Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.

Where is Bulova Gale Foundation based?

Bulova Gale Foundation is based in MA.

Bulova Gale Foundation

Bulova Gale Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$140k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$268kHealth$128kAnimals$99kReligion$76kPhilanthropy$75kFood & Nutrition$56kArts & Culture$48kEmployment$47kOther$0

02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k24 grants · $87k
$10k–50k4 grants · $53k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE	$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES	$13,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDAT	$10,000
MANASOTA ASALH	$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
CHILDREN FIRST INC	$5,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY	$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING	$5,000
ACLU FOUNDATION INC	$4,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT	$3,000
NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION	$2,500

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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Bulova Gale Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bulova Gale Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$841k · 40 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$841k

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

-3%

Still filing today

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

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THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE
7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +62%
University of South Florida Foundation Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +132%
NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +125%

Funded once

HS
HONOR SANCTUARY INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -3%
TW
THE WILMA THEATERgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +47%
SC
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -55%

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals

Farm Sanctuary Inc

We pursue bold solutions to end animal agriculture and foster just and compassionate vegan living through education and policy advocacy.

Animals

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Naples Zoo Inc

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…

Animals

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

United States Naval Institute

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.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

28/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$266,083Other$365,517Health$106,000Philanthropy$75,050Food & Nutrition$49,150Employment$46,500Civil Rights$39,600

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.

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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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