· Public charity
Gamaliel Foundation
To assist local community leaders to create, maintain and expand independent, grassroots, and powerful faith based community organizations so that ordinary people address & resolve common probl
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WISDOM | $67,500 |
| MORE 2 | $48,750 |
| ESCUCHA MI VOZ IOWA | $45,000 |
| MOSES | $31,750 |
| MCU | $23,750 |
| CALEB | $23,750 |
| MICAH MEMPHIS | $23,750 |
| JUSTICE OVERCOMING BOUNDAR | $20,000 |
| BRIDGE | $19,200 |
| UNITED CONGREGATION OF MET | $17,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA INTERFAITH IM | $17,500 |
| FAITH COALITION FOR THE CO | $17,500 |
| ASAMBLEA DE DERECHOS CIVIL | $16,000 |
| QUAD CITIES INTERFAITH | $10,500 |
| ACTION YOUNGSTOWN OHIO | $10,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- WIWISDOM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $206k · revenue +19%
- MOMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $123k · revenue +20%
- BMBRIDGE Maryland Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- NONASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPEone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +23%
- RIRACINE INTERFAITH COALITIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +35%
- MIMICHIGAN INTERFAITH VOICEone grant, 2019 · $29k · revenue 0% · 94% of their budget
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.
Isaac is a faith-based community organizing group made up of congregations and organizations that unite in order to accomplish what cannot be done as individuals or single congregations. together, we focus our collectively formed…
To Transform ordinary people into empowered and engaged citizens and to create the hope, power knowledge, and policitical will need to make compassion and social justice a reality for all missourians.
To train leaders to address issues affecting public safety schools housing and jobs in their communities especially disadvantaged neighborhoods affordable housing and supportive housing.
JOIN is a broad-based alliance of churches, nonprofits, and civic groups that helps ordinary citizens solve community issues they care about.
Faith in Indiana (formerly IndyCAN) is a catalyst for faith communities and marginalized peoples to act collectively for racial and economic justice in Indiana. FaithIN develops civic leaders directly impacted by inequality, awakens the…
Congregations work toward being a powerful congregation-based community organization seeking justice and fairness for the citizens of Jacksonville.
Education and Advocacy We are an Organization of Interfaith and Progressive voices dedicated to affirming the moral authority of black women and girls
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
Ci action fund will advocate for issues that improve outcomes for youth, immigrants, and black, indigenous, hispanic, disabled and youth of color (bihdyoc)
Our vision is a Moral Economy for California which includes structural campaigns that result in significant material improvements for the most vulnerable Californians: making affordable and dignified housing a human right, reducing the…
We are an interfaith, Congregation-based Community Organization. Our member Congregations pledge to build powerful Justice Ministries within their own congregations and to work together to address the root causes of issues of injustice in…
Mobilizing a BIPOC led community toward a lifestyle of faith and justice
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope and the most unlike its peers is Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 25 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 WISDOM INC ↗
- Who funds METRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES INTERFAITH ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS INTERFAITH COALITION FOR ACTION AND HOPE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH INTERFAITH IMPACT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds MOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH) ↗
- Who funds Justice Overcoming Boundries JOB in San Diego County ↗
- Who funds ESCUCHA MI VOZ IOWA ↗
- Who funds UNITED CONGREGATIONS OF METRO EAST ↗
- Who funds PILSEN NEIGHBORS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Genesis Interfaith Community Organizing ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPE ↗
- Who funds Gamaliel of California ↗
- Who funds RACINE INTERFAITH COALITION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN INTERFAITH VOICE ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES BUILDING LASTING EQUALITY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
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.
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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 Gamaliel 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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