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Gallagher Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$782k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$607k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $155k
  • $250k+1 grant · $607k
$155,437
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION$606,900
OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION$155,437
DURHAM MUSEUM$20,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $2k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $2k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 20 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
17

Total granted

$1.6M
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+12%

Still filing today

60%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OP
    OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +225% · 30% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +50%
  • VC
    Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MT
    MIA TAYLOR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • JS
    JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEBRASKA
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
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
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
2
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

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…

Health
3
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
4
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
5
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

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.

—
6
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
7
University Health Inc

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…

—
8
Nebraska Pediatric Practice Inc

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…

Health
9
Nebraska Medicine

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.

Health
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
Minnesota Hospital 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.

—
12
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Nebraska Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 38 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,369,237 · EnvironmentOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATIONLAURITZEN GARDENS: $18,560 · OtherLAURITZEN G…Individual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual …M-A FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE: $15,000 · OtherM-A FOUNDAT…POOR CLARE SISTERS OF OMAHA: $13,000 · OtherPOOR CLARE …WORLD HERALD GOODFELLOWS CHARITIES: $10,000 · OtherWORLD HERAL…MIA TAYLOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMIA TAYLOR …FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $10,000 · OtherFOOD BANK F…MONTESSORI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherMONTESSORI …JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL: $7,800 · OtherST PIUS X CHURCH ST LEO SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEBRASKA: $7,000 · OtherMARIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $6,500 · OtherMILLARD LIONS FOUNDATION: $6,500 · OtherNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,500 · Other+12 more: $36,600 · Other+12 moreUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $60,000 · PhilanthropyVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $40,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthCHI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBuilding Healthy Futures: $4,800 · HealthHARBOR HOUSE: $4,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $20,635 · Arts & CultureAPPLIED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPLETELY KIDS: $18,000 · Youth Development
Environment$1,369,237Other$182,460Philanthropy$60,000Health$58,800Education$30,000Arts & Culture$23,635Youth Development$18,000

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

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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
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 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 ↗

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 FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Sherwood Foundati…Dr C C and Mabel L Cr…Alan & Marcia Baer Fo…Gilbert M and Martha …Mutual of Omaha Found…Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Fred and Sally Be…Physicians Mutual Ins…Richard Brooke Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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