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Galvan Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $368k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $673k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND | $200,000 |
| RADICAL UNITY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT | $103,000 |
| DOWNCITY DESIGN | $100,000 |
| OPEN NEW YORK EDUCATION INC | $100,000 |
| REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION | $70,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE | $50,000 |
| SAGE | $50,000 |
| SERO PROJECT INC | $25,000 |
| SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC EDUCATION INITIATIVES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ERASE RACISM | $25,000 |
| AUBURN SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| SAVANNAH CHILDREN'S CHOIR | $25,000 |
| BUILDERS INSTITUTE OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM | $25,000 |
| OPEN NEW YORK EDUCATION INC | $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 (FY20–24, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $907k 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
- PTPERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2020 · $145k · revenue +93% · 38% of their budget
- CCCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $70k · revenue +98%
- GHGREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue ×17
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSSone grant, 2022 · $2.6M · revenue +4%
BARD COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $450k · revenue +256%- BUBERKSHIRE UNION FREE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $300k
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.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The center for independence of the disabled, new york's goal is to ensure full integration, independence and equal opportunity for all people with disabilities by removing barriers to the social, economic, cultural and civic life of the…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The mission of humanities new york is to strengthen civil society and the bonds of community, using the humanities to foster engaged inquiry and dialogue around social and cultural concerns.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tank Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 115 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 TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING SERVICES AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN NEW YORK EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNCITY DESIGN ↗
- Who funds GALVAN ASSET MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JONAH BOKAER ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO SAVE HEMPSTEAD HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WARRIOR SANCTUARY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI NEW DRAMA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON FLAG DAY PARADE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALVAN HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds SERO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Hrbt Foundation · The Dyson Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Eutopia Foundation · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Flood-Gamble Foundation Inc · The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy Foundation Inc · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · Childrens Foundation of Columbia County Inc
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 Galvan Foundation Charitable Trust 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.
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders 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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