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Gallagher Family Fund at a glance

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Gallagher Family Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$44k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
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 2024.

Community Improvement$185kEducation$71kEnvironment$15kArts & Culture$11kHealth$11kCrime & Legal$7kCivil Rights$2kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$750
Median grant
5
States reached
$789k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Third Sector New England$40,400
Hyacinth AIDS Foundation$1,000
Court Appointed Special Advocate NJ$1,000
A Window Between Worlds$750
Church of the Brethren$500
Hampshire College$500
Proteus Fund$250
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hampshire College: $11k → 12%Third Sector New England: $40k → 16%A Window Between Worlds: $1k → 14%Morris Arts: $8k → 4%Hyacinth AIDS Foundation: $3k → 8%Court Appointed Special Advocate: $1k → 11%Galapagos Conservancy: $5k → 6%Church of the Brethren: $500 → 6%Hampshire College: $11k → 12%Third Sector New England: $35k → 16%A Window Between Worlds: $750 → 14%Girls Surviving: $7k → 4%Hyacinth AIDS Foundation: $2k → 8%Court Appointed Special Advocate: $1k → 11%Galapagos Conservancy: $5k → 6%Church of the Brethen: $500 → 6%Hampshire College: $11k → 12%Third Sector New England: $35k → 16%A Window Between Worlds: $500 → 14%Hyancinth AIDS Foundation: $1k → 8%Court Appointed Special Advocate: $1k → 11%Galapagos Conservancy: $5k → 6%Hampshire College: $10k → 12%Third Sector New England: $35k → 16%A Window Between Worlds: $500 → 14%Hyacinth AIDS Foundation: $1k → 8%Court Appointed Special Advocate: $1k → 11%Hampshire College: $10k → 12%Third Sector New England: $30k → 16%A Window Between Worlds: $500 → 14%Hyacinth AIDS Foundation: $1k → 8%Court Appointed Special Advocate: $1k → 11%Hampshire College: $10k → 12%Third Sector New England: $3k → 16%Hyacinth AIDS Foundation: $1k → 8%Court Appointed Special Advocate NJ: $1k → 11%Hampshire College: $2k → 12%Hyacinth AIDS Foundation: $1k → 8%Court Appointed Special Advocate: $1k → 11%Hampshire College: $2k → 12%Hyacinth AIDS Foundation: $1k → 8%Hampshire College: $2k → 12%Hampshire College: $750 → 12%Hampshire College: $750 → 12%Hampshire College: $750 → 12%Proteus Fund: $500 → 12%Hampshire College: $500 → 12%Hampshire College: $500 → 12%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$285k · 7 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$285k
$16k

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $178k · revenue +31%
  • HA
    HYACINTH AIDS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +108%
  • AW
    A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • MA
    Morris Arts
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • CO
    Church of the Brethen
    one grant, 2023 · $500
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $178,400 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $70,750 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES+1 more: $2,000 · EducationGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 · OtherGALAPAGOS CONSERVA…HYACINTH AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · OtherHYACINTH AIDS FOUN…Morris Arts: $8,000 · OtherMorris ArtsIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…Court Appointed Special Advocate: $6,000 · OtherCourt Appointed Sp…+3 more: $2,500 · OtherA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $3,250 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$178,400Education$72,750Other$49,500Arts & Culture$3,250

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $178,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $70,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHYACINTH AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $3,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds HYACINTH AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gallagher Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gallagher Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Hyacinth Aids Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–15%
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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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