· Private foundation
Galashiels Fund Ltd
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
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
- $250k+10 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $5,000,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $2,209,250 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $2,100,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES | $1,300,000 |
| CRISTO RAY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| GREATER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $1,000,000 |
| WILD TOMORROW FUND | $756,000 |
| BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $125,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC | $100,000 |
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, $15.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +81% · 31% of their budget- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +57%
- CACHALLENGED ATHLETES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +73%
Funded once
- RLROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500k
- CTChicago Training Centerone grant, 2021 · $275k · revenue -9%
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.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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 39 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.
29 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. 29 of the 38 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 WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds GEO Academies Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WILD TOMORROW FUND ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Chicago Training Center ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CARIBBEAN HURRICANE RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Galashiels Fund Ltd 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.