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Gaalema Family Foundation at a glance

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Gaalema Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Education$3kScience & Tech$2kCivil Rights$1kAnimals$1kRecreation & Sports$750Human Services$600Environment$500International$430Other$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KHAN ACADEMY$1,000
PAWS & HOOVES$1,000
LIBERTARIAN FUTURIST SOCIETY$1,000
THE ARTIST BOAT$500
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$500
PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER$500
EASTSIDE TENNIS CENTER TOPS$500
INTERNATIONAL JUGGLERS ASSOCIATION$250
PURDUE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION$250
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIBERTARIAN FUTURIST SOCIETY: $1k → 8%GIVEWELL: $100 → 10%KIVA: $200 → 10%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS: $100 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN: $1k → 10%THE ARTIST BOAT: $500 → 14%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $500 → 22%FPF: $10 → 14%INTERNATIONAL JUGGLERS ASSOCIATION: $250 → 13%LIBERTAS INSTITUTE: $90 → 8%MARS SOCIETY: $1k → 7%SPACE FOUNDATION: $100 → 9%PURDUE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $250 → 19%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $80 → 9%ECHO LEAHY CENTER: $250 → 10%LIBERTARIAN FUTURIST SOCIETY: $60 → 8%KIVA: $100 → 10%MARS SOCIETY: $250 → 7%SPACE FOUNDATION: $50 → 9%HOPELINK REDMOND CENTER: $50 → 9%ECHO LEAHY CENTER: $150 → 10%KIVA: $30 → 10%PAWS & HOOVES: $1k → 9%EASTSIDE TENNIS CENTER TOPS: $500 → 9%ECHO LEAHY CENTER: $150 → 10%PAWS & HOOVES: $60 → 9%PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER: $500 → 9%PAWS & HOOVES: $50 → 9%PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER: $250 → 9%PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER: $100 → 9%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

VT
WA
NY
IN
CA
UT
CO
DC
TX
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6k · 7 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$6k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+60%

Still filing today

71%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationScience & TechArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MS
    Mars Society Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +15%
  • KA
    KHAN ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +48%
  • US
    United States Space Foundation
    2× · 2020–2022 · $150 · revenue +452%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100 · revenue +79%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue -17%
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
National Academy of Sciences

The national academy of sciences was formed under a charter passed as an act of incorporation by the united states congress and signed into law on march 3, 1863. nas operates as a private membership organizationof distinguished scholars…

Science & Tech
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Institute for the International Education of Students

The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) blends the best elements of foreign higher education with American University requirements and encourages students to explore the unique elements of foreign countries.…

Education
4
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
5
Discovery World Ltd

Discovery World educates, motivates,mobilizes and inspires the innovators and entrepreneurs of the 21st century. We connect innovation, science, and technology with exploration, environment, and our Great Lakes freshwater resources through…

Education
6
Theiss Research

The organization's mission is to provide a supportive environment in which scientists can perform and otherwise advance scientific research, for public dissemination and benefit, in areas including, but not limited to, the studies of the…

Science & Tech
7
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
8
National Academy of Engineering Fund

Naef supports the activities of the national academy of engineering (nae). nae operates within the charter and framework of the national academy of sciences (nas) and advises the federal government on matters of science and technology. nae…

Science & Tech
9
American Astronomical Society

The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…

Science & Tech
10
International Society for Arts Science and Technology Dba LeonardoISAST

The mission of the Organization is to identify new avenues to serve the art, science, and technology community. The Organization is recognized as a global leader in the interdisciplinary world of art, science, and technology. For over 50…

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11
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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12
International Society of Automation

The international society of automation (isa) is a non-profit professional association founded in 1945 to create a better world through automation. isa empowers the global automation community through standards and knowledge sharing,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Space Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Paws N Hooves. 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

13 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. 13 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIBERTARIAN FUTURIST SOCIETY: $1,060 · OtherLIBERTARIAN FUTURIST SOCIETYUNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN: $1,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF AUSTINECHO LEAHY CENTER: $550 · OtherECHO LEAHY CENTEREASTSIDE TENNIS CENTER TOPS: $500 · OtherEASTSIDE TENNIS CENTER TOPSINTERNATIONAL JUGGLERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 · OtherINTERNATIONAL JUGGLERS ASSOCIATION INC+5 more: $330 · Other+5 moreKHAN ACADEMY INC: $1,200 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCTexas A&M Foundation: $500 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationPurdue Research Foundation: $250 · EducationPurdue Research Foundatio…United States Space Foundation: $150 · EducationUnited States Space Found…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC: $100 · EducationMars Society Inc: $1,250 · Science & TechMars Society I…Paws N Hooves: $1,110 · AnimalsPaws N Hoove…PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $850 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC S…THE ARTIST BOAT INC: $500 · EnvironmentKIVA MICROFUNDS: $330 · International
Other$3,690Education$2,200Science & Tech$1,250Animals$1,110Arts & Culture$850Environment$500International$330

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMars Society Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPaws N Hooves: $1,110 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOAT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $330 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUGGLERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Space Foundation: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLibertas Network: $90 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Gaalema Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gaalema Family 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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