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Gale Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.1MReligion$2.7MCivil Rights$1.6MArts & Culture$1.1MCrime & Legal$970kInternational$795kHealth$755kPublic Benefit$750kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$75,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Shalem Foundation$350,000
Ariel University Foundation$250,000
Central Fund of Israel$150,000
Lamar University Foundation$150,000
Foundation for Cultural Review$100,000
Institute on Religion & Public$100,000
Cato Institute$75,000
Lamar Institute of Tech Found$75,000
Brothers For Life$75,000
Federalist Society$75,000
Friends of the IDF$75,000
Commentary$75,000
American Friends of Leket Israel$50,000
Manhattan Institute$50,000
Tikvah Fund$45,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Central Fund of Israel: $150k → 6%Commentary: $160k → 17%American Friends of Ariel Univ: $1.0M → 20%Project on Fair Representation: $150k → 10%University of Texas Medical Branch: $150k → 14%Brothers For Life: $75k → 16%Lamar Institute of Tech Found: $75k → 19%Cato Institute: $75k → 14%Donors Trust: $250k → 9%Commentary: $150k → 17%American Friends of Ariel Univ: $110k → 20%Project on Fair Representation: $150k → 10%Commentary: $125k → 17%Project on Fair Representation: $125k → 10%Commentary: $112k → 17%Project on Fair Representation: $125k → 10%Temple Emanuel: $1.0M → 19%Federalist Society: $150k → 14%Commentary: $100k → 17%Project on Fair Representation: $100k → 10%Temple Emanuel: $600k → 19%Federalist Society: $150k → 14%Commentary: $75k → 17%Project on Fair Representation: $60k → 10%Federalist Society: $131k → 14%Commentary: $75k → 17%Lamar State College-Port Arthur: $63k → 19%Federalist Society: $125k → 14%Institute on Religion & Public: $100k → 17%Federalist Society: $100k → 14%The Shalem Foundation: $350k → 17%Federalist Society: $75k → 14%The Shalem Foundation: $200k → 17%Federalist Society: $75k → 14%The Shalem Foundation: $200k → 17%The Shalem Foundation: $100k → 17%The Shalem Foundation: $100k → 17%Foundation for Cultural Review: $165k → 17%Foundation for Cultural Review: $150k → 17%Foundation for Cultural Review: $150k → 17%Foundation for Cultural Review: $125k → 17%Foundation for Cultural Review: $100k → 17%Foundation for Cultural Review: $100k → 17%Foundation for Cultural Review: $100k → 17%Manhattan Institute: $150k → 17%Manhattan Institute: $150k → 17%Manhattan Institute: $100k → 17%Manhattan Institute: $75k → 17%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

VT
ID
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CO
VA
MD
DC
LA
MS
AL
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 18 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
31

Total granted

$9.0M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
0%

Still filing today

72%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $735k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationArts & CultureReligionPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TS
    The Shalem Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $950k · revenue +147%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW
    7× · 2019–2025 · $890k · revenue +27%
  • TF
    THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $806k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • LI
    Lamar Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • UO
    Univer of Alabama Neurology
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • UO
    Univ of Alabama Cntr for Neurology
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
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
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

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2
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
3
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
4
First Look Institute Inc

First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.

Arts & Culture
5
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
6
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
7
Jewish Philosophy Fund Inc
Arts & Culture
8
American Friends of the Open University of Israel Inc

To raise awareness in the united states and provide support for the open university of israel's vital mission of making access to higher education available to capable and motivated students from all sectors of israeli society.

International
9
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
10
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
11
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
12
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies; the most unlike its peers is Sabinal Alumni. 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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 59 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
16/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Temple Emanuel: $1,620,000 · OtherTemple EmanuelAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INC: $1,110,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INCLamar Institute of Technology: $1,000,000 · OtherLamar Institute of TechnologyTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $806,250 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIESFriends of the IDF: $450,000 · OtherFriends of the IDF+38 more: $2,554,500 · Other+38 moreThe Shalem Foundation: $950,000 · Crime & LegalThe Shale…The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $100,000 · Crime & LegalThe Louis…FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW: $890,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATIO…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS O…+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMENTARY INC: $797,000 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $50,000 · ReligionProject on Fair Representation Inc: $710,000 · Civil RightsMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $600,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Public BenefitLamar University Foundation Inc: $487,500 · EducationTHE TIKVAH FUND: $75,000 · Education+4 more: $40,000 · Education
Other$7,540,750Crime & Legal$1,050,000Arts & Culture$990,000Religion$847,000Civil Rights$710,000Public Benefit$700,000Education$602,500

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INC: $1,110,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $950,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW: $890,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $806,250 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $797,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetProject on Fair Representation Inc: $710,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $600,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $487,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDonors Trust Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSome Other Place: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR RACE AND OPPORTUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOW Center: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSABINAL ALUMNI: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OF LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMENTARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Project on Fair Representation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗

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.

Donors Trust IncJewish Communal FundGreater Houston Commu…The US Charitable Gif…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 59 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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