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Galashiels Fund Ltd at a glance

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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.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$24MInternational$19MCrime & Legal$19MRecreation & Sports$14MPublic Benefit$5.3MYouth Development$3.8MHealth$3.6MAnimals$2.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
  • $250k+10 grants · $15M
$1,000,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$151M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$5,000,000
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF$2,209,250
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$2,100,000
HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES$1,300,000
CATO INSTITUTE$1,000,000
CRISTO RAY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$1,000,000
GREATER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION$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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $2.1M → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $2.2M → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $2.0M → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $1.0M → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $1.0M → 11%A Better Chicago: $1.3M → 14%A Better Chicago: $1.0M → 14%A Better Chicago: $668k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $500k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $250k → 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
NY
MA
IN
CA
KY
VA
SC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90M · 25 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
11

Total granted

$90M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+12%

Still filing today

92%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +81% · 31% of their budget
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +57%
  • CA
    CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • RL
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • CT
    Chicago Training Center
    one grant, 2021 · $275k · revenue -9%
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
Chicago Opera Theater

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Music Institute of Chicago

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.

Arts & Culture
5
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
6
The Chicago High School for the Arts

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…

Education
7
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
8
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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9
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.

Education
10
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
11
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

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.

Education
12
Lehigh University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Shakespeare Theater; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 38 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
25/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $19,362,790 · Public Safety & DisasterWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NF…INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $18,825,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICEGEO Academies Inc: $6,000,000 · EducationGEO Academies IncHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $5,684,401 · EducationHOLY FAMILY MINIST…Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $1,400,000 · EducationLawndale Education…BEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,150,000 · EducationBEGINNING WITH CHI…AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC: $900,000 · EducationAMERICAN FEDERATIO…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $625,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $11,300,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETE…A Better Chicago: $3,751,500 · Human ServicesA Better ChicagoCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $3,600,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HI…CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HI…ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · OtherROBERT LOUIS STEVENS…Holy Family School: $800,000 · OtherRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $1,800,000 · OtherRehabilitation Insti…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 · OtherROW NEW YORK INC: $2,350,000 · OtherROW NEW YORK INCWILD TOMORROW FUND: $2,079,000 · OtherWILD TOMORROW FUNDRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $1,550,000 · OtherRAILS TO TRAILS CONS…+9 more: $2,285,000 · Other+9 moreCATO INSTITUTE: $5,250,000 · Public BenefitGreater Educational Opportunities Foundation: $1,625,000 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre Inc: $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $250,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chicago: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $170,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Public Safety & Disaster$19,362,790Civil Rights$18,825,000Education$15,784,401Human Services$15,051,500Other$17,114,000Public Benefit$5,250,000Arts & Culture$2,970,000

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 budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $19,362,790 over 8y, 31% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $18,825,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $11,300,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetGEO Academies Inc: $6,000,000 over 4y, 72% of budgetHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $5,684,401 over 5y, 18% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $5,250,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetA Better Chicago: $3,751,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetROW NEW YORK INC: $2,350,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetWILD TOMORROW FUND: $2,079,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $1,800,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Educational Opportunities Foundation: $1,625,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $1,550,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $1,400,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBEGINNING WITH CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,150,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC: $900,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $625,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $275,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $170,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetISLAND CARIBBEAN HURRICANE RELIEF FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $25,000 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…
The Chicago Community TrustIL16.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Galashiels Fund Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Galashiels Fund Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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