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Gallo Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$293k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

7
’18
4
’19
3
’20
2
’21
6
’22
3
’23
2
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$570kEducation$422kArts & Culture$180kHealth$145kHuman Services$130kHousing & Shelter$50kYouth Development$25kAnimals$9kOther$0
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC$100,000
PEACE HOUSE INC$70,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$50,000
SEQUOIA SPRINGS TRAUMA HEALING CENTER INC$50,000
BOSTON BALLET$11,500
NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION$6,000
SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS$5,000
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 (FY18–23, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $25k → 8%NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSISTANCE FOR DOG SERVICES: $10k → 11%PEACE HOUSE INC: $70k → 5%HOUSING FAMILIES: $25k → 8%PEACE HOUSE INC: $50k → 5%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$949k · 9 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$949k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+60%

Still filing today

78%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PH
    Peace House Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $120k · revenue +43%
  • SS
    Sequoia Springs Trauma Healing Center
    4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +118%
  • BOSTON BALLET INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $114k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • BB
    BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -17%
  • WM
    WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +60%
  • MA
    MSPCA ANGELL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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3
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
5
Boston Foundation Inc

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:…

Philanthropy
6
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
7
Roger Williams University

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
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
10
Northeastern University
Education
11
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
12
The Bridgespan Group Inc

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge Boston Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $210,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOST…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEG…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $45,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute o…BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationBRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION …+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $310,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS C…ANN C GALLO FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND: $170,084 · OtherANN C GALLO FIDELITY C…BRIDGE BOSTON CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherBRIDGE BOSTON CHARTER …Massachusetts College of Art and Design: $22,400 · OtherMassachusetts College …MSPCA ANGELL MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · OtherMSPCA ANGELL MEDICAL C…Individual grant recipient: $12,000 · Other+6 more: $27,800 · Other+6 morePeace House Inc: $120,000 · Human ServicesPeace House I…HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FAMIL…NEADS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INCBOSTON BALLET INC: $113,750 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLE…THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUT…NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSequoia Springs Trauma Healing Center: $120,000 · HealthRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $90,000 · PhilanthropyWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsYANKEE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC: $2,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $2,000 · Animals
Education$350,000Community Improvement$310,000Other$302,284Human Services$180,000Arts & Culture$169,750Health$120,000Philanthropy$115,000Animals$9,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $310,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $210,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPeace House Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSequoia Springs Trauma Healing Center: $120,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $113,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGFIELD SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $2,000 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gallo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gallo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–40%
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 Gallo Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gallo Family 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 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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