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.

Gale Family Foundation

Gale Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.9MPhilanthropy$3.7MEducation$2.3MEnvironment$712kInternational$424kHealth$321kYouth Development$303kHuman Services$268kOther$0

02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $36k
$10k–50k24 grants · $417k
$50k–250k12 grants · $973k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SITE SANTA FE	$100,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE	$100,000
LAND LIGHT FOUNDATION	$100,000
SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL	$75,000
RADIUS BOOKS	$55,000
BLAKE SCHOOL	$50,000
THE GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM	$50,000
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS (IAIA)	$50,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS	$50,000
PROJECT PERFECT WORLD	$30,000
NDI NEW MEXICO	$30,000

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$10M · 69 repeat orgs$659k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$501k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

Still filing today

70%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

MO
MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION
7× · 2019–2025 · $533k · revenue +58%
LP
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
7× · 2019–2025 · $490k · revenue +132%
OC
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
7× · 2019–2025 · $460k · revenue +37%

Funded once

TG
THE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTA
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -61%
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC
one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -48%
SD
SHIRLEY DOANE SENIOR CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $50k

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.

Santa Fe Institute

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,…

Science & Tech

San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture

The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico

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Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund

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…

Civil Rights

Kimbell Art Foundation

Arts & Culture

Grand Rapids Art Museum

Connecting people through art, creativity, and design.

Arts & Culture

Northern New Mexicans Protecting Land Water and Rights Inc

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…

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Santa Fe Conservation Trust

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…

Environment

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

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…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 113 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

73/76

Grantees still filing

47/76

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,845,819Arts & Culture$2,981,400Philanthropy$2,912,833Education$1,969,500Environment$492,320International$258,660Youth Development$242,500

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

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM54.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gale Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gale Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home