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Gale Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $417k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $973k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING | $250,000 |
| SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL | $125,000 |
| LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $117,500 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LAND LIGHT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| SITE SANTA FE | $100,000 |
| SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| RADIUS BOOKS | $55,000 |
| THE GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| BLAKE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS (IAIA) | $50,000 |
| NDI NEW MEXICO | $30,000 |
| PROJECT PERFECT WORLD | $30,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
- MOMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $533k · revenue +58%
- LPLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $490k · revenue +132%
- OCOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $460k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TGTHE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -61%
- SDSHIRLEY DOANE SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2022 · $50k
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -48%
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.
The santa fe institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical,…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Cvnm education fund is a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to engaging the people of new mexico in our long-standing shared values of protecting our air, land, water, and the health of our communities. we do this by mobilizing…
Connecting people through art, creativity, and design.
Northern new mexicans protecting land water and rights strives to lessen the stress of neighborhood tensions due to lack of information and fair representation. by providing an organization whose main goal is to unite and empower the…
The santa fe conservation trust partners with our community to keep northern new mexico's living lands and people flourishing together. we protect culturally and environmentally significant landscapes, ignite people's passion for nature…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To respect and support the traditions and creative expressions of the native american peoples, and to present exhibitions and other public programs relating to them; to collect and document contemporary expressions of the navajo people…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Inc. 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 30 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 113 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 GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds LAND LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING ↗
- Who funds SITE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RADIUS BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds Lower Chippewa Invasives Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Future Urban Leaders ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds Wright-Ingraham Institute ↗
- Who funds THE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · The Frost Foundation · La Liga · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Bolene Charitable Trust · Slf Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation 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 Gale Family Foundation 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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