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Frances Galey Foundation at a glance

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Frances Galey Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2018
32
Grants FY2018
15
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Religion$23kEducation$4kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$800Health$750International$450Arts & Culture$250Membership Benefit$225Other$0
02FY2018 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k31 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$100
Median grant
15
States reached
$271k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Resurrection Lutheran Church$10,450
GranParent$600
The Lutheran Church$600
FOCUS ON FAMILY$500
The Lutheran Church$500
The Lutheran Church$300
Food for the Poor$250
LUTHERN HOUR MINISTRIES$200
The Heritage Foundation$150
Hillsdale College$150
NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY$100
Smile Train$100
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation$100
The Salvation Army$100
Civitas Institute$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: $50 → 8%AMerican Red Cross: $50 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.
$25k · 20 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

$25k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
InternationalHealthReligionEducationHuman 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

  • MM
    MARION MEDICAL MISSION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $300 · revenue +49%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200 · revenue +145%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200 · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LUTHERAN SCHOOL - MISSOURI SYNOD
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k
  • JL
    JORDAN LUTHERAN CHURCH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $200
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
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
5
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
6
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
7
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Mission Mutual

Equipping mission, ministry, and philanthropic organizations (of similar vision) with the organizational and relational perspective needed to accelerate and enhance their collective impact. mission mutual exists to provide centralized…

International
10
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
11
International Committee of the Red Cross

The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…

International
12
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Raise Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

20 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. 20 of the 36 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Resurrection Lutheran Church: $18,850 · OtherResurrection Lutheran ChurchTHE LUTHERAN SCHOOL - MISSOURI SYNOD: $3,250 · OtherTHE LUTHERAN SCHOOL - MISSOURI SYNODJORDAN LUTHERAN CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherJORDAN LUTHERAN CHURCHThe Lutheran Church: $1,550 · OtherFOCUS ON FAMILY: $1,300 · OtherGranParent: $1,200 · Other+14 more: $2,150 · Other+14 moreFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $750 · InternationalMARION MEDICAL MISSION: $300 · InternationalLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $100 · InternationalMercy Corps: $50 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $200 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGE: $150 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $150 · EducationAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $400 · ReligionWE RAISE FOUNDATION: $50 · ReligionTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $200 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $50 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $150 · Arts & CultureCIVITAS INSTITUTE INC: $100 · Civil RightsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $50 · Human Services
Other$30,300International$1,200Education$500Religion$450Health$450Arts & Culture$150Civil Rights$100Human Services$100

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARION MEDICAL MISSION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLM FAMILIES TOGETHER INC: $75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWE RAISE FOUNDATION: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Frances Galey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frances Galey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 36 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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