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Gallo Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Gallo Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Gallo Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $293k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC | $100,000 |
| PEACE HOUSE INC | $70,000 |
| SEQUOIA SPRINGS TRAUMA HEALING CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND | $50,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $11,500 |
| NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 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
- SSSequoia Springs Trauma Healing Center4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +118%
- PHPeace House Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $120k · revenue +43%
BOSTON BALLET INC2× · 2022–2024 · $114k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- WMWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +60%
- BBBRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -17%
- MAMSPCA ANGELL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Education and Research
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge Boston Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sequoia Springs Trauma Healing Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 29 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Sequoia Springs Trauma Healing Center ↗
- Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gallo Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% 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.
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