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Gale Family Foundation Inc

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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
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 2025.

Animals$132kPublic Benefit$49kHealth$45kHuman Services$34kInternational$27kEducation$13kCrime & Legal$9kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$769k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE INT'L FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS$11,030
TURNING POINT USA$7,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$5,000
BORDER COLLIES IN NEED INC$5,000
METROPOLITAN MALTESE RESCUE$4,000
K9 FOR WARRIORS$2,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$1,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDE DOG FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%WESPARK INC: $2k → 14%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS: $200 → 13%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $2k → 14%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 5%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $4k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $4k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $2k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $1k → 6%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 14%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $1k → 14%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $250 → 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

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MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NC
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DC
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Gale Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 24%.

Gale Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$283k · 30 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
21

Total granted

$283k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+46%

Still filing today

73%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +44%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +141%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -88%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +134%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +58%
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
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
2
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
3
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
4
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
5
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc

Dogs Inc mission is to transform lives by creating and nurturing extraordinary partnerships between people and dogs.

Human Services
6
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
7
Pets for Patriots Inc

The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…

Animals
8
Puppies Behind Bars Inc

Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.

Human Services
9
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…

Animals
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.

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12
Pawsitivity

Train and place service dogs at no cost with U.S. military veterans with PTSD and other disabilities to increase independence.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Guiding Eyes Inc Dba Guide Dogs of America; the most unlike its peers is Border Collies in Need. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $38,895 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYMETROPOLITAN MALTESE RESCUE: $26,000 · AnimalsMETROPOLITAN MALTESE RESCUEBORDER COLLIES IN NEED: $18,460 · AnimalsBORDER COLLIES IN NEEDK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $13,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INCTHE AMANDA FOUNDATION: $3,876 · Animals+5 more: $9,000 · Animals+5 moreIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $12,640 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICETHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $12,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $11,030 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS &…K9 RESCUE WARRIORS: $8,000 · OtherK9 RESCUE WARRIORSTURNING POINT USA: $7,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USAK9 FOR WARRIORS: $7,000 · OtherK9 FOR WARRIORSGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,500 · OtherGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INCPROJECT VERITAS: $6,200 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $7,000 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATI…SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE: $5,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,000 · OtherHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $4,000 · Other+12 more: $16,164 · Other+12 moreJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $34,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WA…+1 more: $1,000 · Public BenefitInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $7,500 · Human ServicesInternati…WESPARK INC: $5,250 · Human ServicesWESPARK I…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM S…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED W…PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $3,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT P…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOG…CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $1,500 · Human Services+2 more: $700 · Human ServicesTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $15,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $2,800 · Health+1 more: $600 · HealthPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $5,500 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLICENSING INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE REAGAN LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $750 · PhilanthropyPacific Legal Foundation: $9,182 · Crime & Legal
Animals$109,231Other$119,534Public Benefit$35,000Human Services$29,450Health$18,400Philanthropy$13,250Crime & Legal$9,182

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $38,895 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MALTESE RESCUE: $26,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetBORDER COLLIES IN NEED: $18,460 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $9,182 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $6,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESPARK INC: $5,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMANDA FOUNDATION: $3,876 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPets In Need: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZabs Place: $2,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLICENSING INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE REAGAN LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

California Community …The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–60%
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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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