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Gallagher Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$782k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$155,437
Largest grant, FY2023
$606,900
Organizations funded a year
2 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Gallagher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsEducationCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$782k0%
FY20225$637k60%
FY202114$77k21%
FY202011$65k45%
FY201913$54k31%
FY201814$45k50%
FY201715$57kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$1.4MPhilanthropy$85kEducation$72kHealth$66kArts & Culture$40kYouth Development$18kReligion$16kAnimals$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Omaha Parks Foundation$1,369,237230%
United Way of the Midlands$60,00060%
Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired$40,00041%
The Durham Museum$20,63520%
Completely Kids$18,00030%
World Herald Goodfellows Charities$10,0002n/a
Mia Taylor Foundation$10,0001n/a
Food Bank for the Heartland$10,00030%
Nebraska Humane Society$8,50040%
St Pius X Church St Leo School$7,0002n/a
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All grantees of Gallagher Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Omaha Parks Foundation$1,369,237230%
United Way of the Midlands$60,00060%
Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired$40,00041%
The Durham Museum$20,63520%
Completely Kids$18,00030%
World Herald Goodfellows Charities$10,0002n/a
Mia Taylor Foundation$10,0001n/a
Food Bank for the Heartland$10,00030%
Nebraska Humane Society$8,50040%
St Pius X Church St Leo School$7,0002n/a
Millard Lions Foundation$6,5001n/a
Omaha Public Library Foundation$6,00020%
Golden Retriever Rescue in Nebraska Inc$6,00026%
University of Nebraska Foundation$5,00010%
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation$5,00010%
Chi Health Foundation$5,00010%
Carnegie Mellon University$5,00010%
Building Healthy Futures$4,8001n/a
The Omaha Home for Boys$4,00020%
Harbor House$4,00020%
City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc$3,60020%
Faith Evangelical Free Church$3,0001n/a
Applied Information Management Institute$3,00010%
Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House$3,00010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Gallagher Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOmaha Parks Foundation: $1,369,237 over 2y, 30% of budgetUnited Way of the Midlands: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Durham Museum: $20,635 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCompletely Kids: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank for the Heartland: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNebraska Humane Society: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOmaha Public Library Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGolden Retriever Rescue in Nebraska Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChi Health Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Omaha Home for Boys: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarbor House: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc: $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetApplied Information Management Institute: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

The Lozier FoundationNE23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Gallagher Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gallagher Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Gallagher Foundation

How much does Gallagher Foundation give?
Gallagher Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $782,337 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Gallagher Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (79%), Philanthropy (5%), Education (4%).
Who are Gallagher Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Omaha Parks Foundation ($1.4M), United Way of the Midlands ($60k), Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired ($40k).
Does Gallagher Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gallagher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gallagher Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
Where is Gallagher Foundation based?
Gallagher Foundation is based in NE.

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 38 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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