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Gallagher Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $155k
- $250k+1 grant · $607k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION | $606,900 |
| OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION | $155,437 |
| DURHAM MUSEUM | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OPOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +225% · 30% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +50%
- VCVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- MTMIA TAYLOR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- JSJUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $8k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEBRASKAone grant, 2020 · $7k
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.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Nebraska Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE IN NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds Building Healthy Futures ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds APPLIED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
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: The Lozier Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial · Alan & Marcia Baer Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation · Physicians Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation
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 Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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