Minnesota · Private foundation
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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 47
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Gale Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $1.6M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $1.4M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $1.7M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $1.6M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $1.6M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of New Mexico Foundation | $532,800 | 7 | 1% |
| Santa Fe Preparatory School | $500,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Lensic Performing Arts Center | $489,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Occidental College | $460,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $445,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Land Light Foundation | $402,000 | 7 | 40% |
| The May Center for Learning | $352,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Site Santa Fe | $320,000 | 7 | 2% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $298,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts | $290,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gale Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Gale Family Foundation
- How much does Gale Family Foundation give?
- Gale Family Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $1,675,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 47 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Gale Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Philanthropy (29%), Education (18%).
- Who are Gale Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Museum of New Mexico Foundation ($533k), Santa Fe Preparatory School ($500k), Lensic Performing Arts Center ($490k).
- Does Gale Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gale Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gale Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, The Abeles Foundation, Thornburg Foundation.
- Where is Gale Family Foundation based?
- Gale Family Foundation is based in MN.
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