Texas · Private foundation
Gale Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Gale Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 18 | $1.7M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $1.1M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.1M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.5M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.1M | 61% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $3.9M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Ariel University Inc | $1,110,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Shalem Foundation | $950,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Foundation for Cultural Review | $890,000 | 7 | 4% |
| The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies | $806,250 | 7 | 1% |
| Commentary Inc | $797,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Project on Fair Representation Inc | $710,000 | 6 | 39% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $600,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Lamar University Foundation Inc | $487,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gale Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Gale Foundation
- How much does Gale Foundation give?
- Gale Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $1,750,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Gale Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Religion (22%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are Gale Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Friends of Ariel University Inc ($1.1M), The Shalem Foundation ($950k), Foundation for Cultural Review ($890k).
- Does Gale Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gale Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gale Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Gale Foundation based?
- Gale Foundation is based in TX.
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