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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.6MArts & Culture$3.2MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCommunity Improvement$508kYouth Development$339kCivil Rights$332kHuman Services$208kEnvironment$154kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $368k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $673k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND$200,000
RADICAL UNITY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT$103,000
OPEN NEW YORK EDUCATION INC$100,000
DOWNCITY DESIGN$100,000
REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION$70,000
SAGE$50,000
FOUNTAIN HOUSE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC EDUCATION INITIATIVES$25,000
SERO PROJECT INC$25,000
ERASE RACISM$25,000
SAVANNAH CHILDREN'S CHOIR$25,000
BUILDERS INSTITUTE OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM$25,000
AUBURN SEMINARY$25,000
OPEN NEW YORK EDUCATION INC$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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE COSTAL EMPIRE: $40k → 16%NYCON: $10k → 14%THE WARRIOR SANCTUARY ORGANIZATION: $50k → 20%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $43k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $13k → 11%COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $5k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $3k → 11%GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 20 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
66

Total granted

$4.9M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+22%

Still filing today

65%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $907k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • PT
    PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $145k · revenue +93% · 38% of their budget
  • CC
    COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $70k · revenue +98%
  • GH
    GREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue ×17

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · $2.6M · revenue +4%
  • BARD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $450k · revenue +256%
  • BU
    BERKSHIRE UNION FREE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
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
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
3
En Garde Arts Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
4
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
5
New York Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Performance Space 122 Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Center for Contemporary Opera

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…

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8
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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9
Municipal Art Society of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Governors Island Corporation

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…

Animals
12
New York Council for the Humanities

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
35/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS: $2,797,800 · OtherWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTSBERKSHIRE UNION FREE SCHOOL: $300,000 · OtherBERKSHIRE UNION FREE SCHOOL+78 more: $1,403,648 · Other+78 moreTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $2,600,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY…BARD COLLEGE: $450,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE+4 more: $130,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY HOUSING SERVICES AGENCY INC: $1,050,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HO…OPEN NEW YORK EDUCATION INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterOPEN NEW YOR…REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $367,500 · Community ImprovementGALVAN ASSET MANAGEMENT INC: $73,532 · Community ImprovementGALVAN HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $27,212 · Community Improvement+1 more: $6,250 · Community ImprovementJONAH BOKAER ARTS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI NEW DRAMA: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON FLAG DAY PARADE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TANK LTD: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTectonic Theater Project Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNational Queer Theater: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON FILM FESTIVAL INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORY THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDEEP CENTER INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentDOWNCITY DESIGN: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $12,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsERASE RACISM INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$4,501,448Education$3,180,000Housing & Shelter$1,150,000Community Improvement$474,494Arts & Culture$292,500Youth Development$259,000Civil Rights$250,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $2,600,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING SERVICES AGENCY INC: $1,050,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $450,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $367,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC: $145,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetDOWNCITY DESIGN: $100,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetOPEN NEW YORK EDUCATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGALVAN ASSET MANAGEMENT INC: $73,532 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetGREATER HUDSON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD INC: $65,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetJONAH BOKAER ARTS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCOALITION TO SAVE HEMPSTEAD HARBOR INC: $55,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WARRIOR SANCTUARY ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIAMI NEW DRAMA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHUDSON FLAG DAY PARADE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGALVAN HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $27,212 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetERASE RACISM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHUDSON AREA ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAVANNAH CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetNEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSERO PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTectonic Theater Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNational Queer Theater: $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHUDSON FILM FESTIVAL INC: $12,500 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetOPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $12,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HISTORY THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINDFUL SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEEP CENTER INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLUMBIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Hrbt FoundationThe Dyson FoundationThe Jm Kaplan Fund IncEutopia FoundationBank of Greene County…Rheinstrom Hill Commu…Broadway Caresequity …Flood-Gamble Foundati…The Sally S and Rober…The Alexander and Mar…Childrens Foundation …
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA35× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Galvan Foundation Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Galvan Foundation Charitable Trust 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 115 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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