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Ernest Gallo Foundation at a glance

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Ernest Gallo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

70% of Ernest Gallo Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’20
3
’21
7
’22
6
’23
7
’24
5
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$6.0MHealth$3.5MHuman Services$500kYouth Development$250kArts & Culture$210kEducation$155kFood & Nutrition$61kCivil Rights$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $380k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.1M
$80,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$1,700,000
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH$400,000
JORDAN'S GUARDIAN ANGELS$100,000
CHURCH FOR TOMORROW$100,000
STANISLAUS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$80,000
JOHN BURTON ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH$50,000
HOOVER HOUSE$50,000
UNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION$30,000
GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS$25,000
DE MARILLAC ACADEMY$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $600k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JORDAN'S GUARDIAN ANGELS: $100k → 12%JORDAN'S GUARDIAN ANGELS: $100k → 12%JORDAN'S GUARDIAN ANGELS: $100k → 12%JORDAN'S GUARDIAN ANGELS: $100k → 12%JORDAN'S GUARDIAN ANGELS: $100k → 12%JORDAN'S GUARDIAN ANGELS: $100k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 5 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • JG
    JORDANS GUARDIAN ANGELS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +60%
  • JB
    John Burton Advocates for Youth
    4× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +27%
  • GC
    GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $235k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • MS
    MARK STEPHEN GALLO MEMORIAL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +33%
  • SO
    SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

1
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
2
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
6
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
7
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
9
Catholic Charities Foundation of Stockton Inc

The purpose of this corporation is to support the charitable activities of the catholic charities diocese of stockton in providing much-needed social services to individuals in need throughout san joaquin county and the surrounding area.

Human Services
10
Sutter Valley Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford

Organization's primary exempt purpose the specific and primary purposes of lucile salter packard children's hospital at stanford ("lpch") are to support, benefit and further the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of the board…

Health
12
Sutter Valley Medical Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: Caring for our patients first and our people always. VISION: To be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California San Francisco Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Modesto Parent Participation Preschool Incorporated. 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

16 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. 16 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac: $7,700,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION+1 more: $100,000 · EducationLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $2,867,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATIO…+1 more: $500 · HealthJORDANS GUARDIAN ANGELS: $600,000 · Human ServicesJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentGALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $235,000 · Arts & CultureCHURCH FOR TOMORROW: $100,000 · OtherHOOVER HOUSE: $50,000 · OtherSISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS: $25,000 · OtherMARK STEPHEN GALLO MEMORIAL FUND: $50,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA UNITED: $25,000 · Other1984 Grupe Fair Fund: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $12,000 · OtherUNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · PhilanthropyStanislaus Community Foundation: $85,000 · Philanthropy
Education$8,800,000Health$2,867,500Human Services$600,000Youth Development$300,000Arts & Culture$235,000Other$287,000Philanthropy$175,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $7,700,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $2,867,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJORDANS GUARDIAN ANGELS: $600,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $300,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetGALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $235,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetStanislaus Community Foundation: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA UNITED: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budget1984 Grupe Fair Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMODESTO GOSPEL MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetModesto Parent Participation Preschool Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM TRUST USA: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Bob & Marie Gallo Fou…The Cortopassi Family…Stanislaus Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Bob & Marie Gallo FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bob & Marie Gallo Foundation · The Cortopassi Family Foundation · Stanislaus Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ernest Gallo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernest Gallo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ernest Gallo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ernest Gallo Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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