· Private foundation
Gallagher Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $25,000 |
| ST MARY STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH | $5,600 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| RICHARD AND FLORENCE FRIDL FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP-UNIV OF DAYTON | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CONGREGATION | $3,500 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE | $2,000 |
| WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION | $1,520 |
| MARTY O'CONNOR FOUNDATION FOR PROGRESS | $1,500 |
| A HOUSE IN AUSTIN | $1,000 |
| BALLPARK DAY OF FAITH | $1,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| AFJHAR | $1,000 |
| JOURNEY HOUSE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST FRANCIS DESALES SEMINARY | $1,000 |
| DIOCESE OF VENICE | $750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MUMarquette University6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +24%
- AHA HOUSE IN AUSTIN6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +72%
WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TFTAILS FOR LIFE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
Children First Incone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Mercy home provides essential services for children and adults with developmental disabilities. mercy home's mission is to ensure the quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities through the recognition of each person's…
The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Guest House of Milwaukee provides a full continuum of services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or at risk of losing housing. Guest House serves more than 2,000 individuals annually through emergency shelter, housing,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds A HOUSE IN AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND GIRLS FUND OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING MOUNTAINS ADAPTIVE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds TAILS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONARIES OF THE LITURGY ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CANCER SPECIALISTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Joseph F & Catherine M Bennett Family Foundation · Susan and Leander Jennings Foundati · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gallagher Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.