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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

$419k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$504kPhilanthropy$206kCommunity Improvement$195kReligion$189kCrime & Legal$50kEducation$45kHuman Services$28kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$19,200
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISDOM$67,500
MORE 2$48,750
ESCUCHA MI VOZ IOWA$45,000
MOSES$31,750
MICAH MEMPHIS$23,750
MCU$23,750
CALEB$23,750
JUSTICE OVERCOMING BOUNDAR$20,000
BRIDGE$19,200
UNITED CONGREGATION OF MET$17,500
FAITH COALITION FOR THE CO$17,500
PENNSYLVANIA INTERFAITH IM$17,500
ASAMBLEA DE DERECHOS CIVIL$16,000
ACTION YOUNGSTOWN OHIO$10,500
QUAD CITIES INTERFAITH$10,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASEMBLES DE DERECHOS CIVLI: $10k → 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

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
IA
OH
PA
CA
MO
MD
TN
DC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 16 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$1.0M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+23%

Still filing today

94%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementCivil RightsReligionEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WI
    WISDOM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $206k · revenue +19%
  • MO
    METRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $123k · revenue +20%
  • BM
    BRIDGE Maryland Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • NO
    NASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPE
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +23%
  • RI
    RACINE INTERFAITH COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +35%
  • MI
    MICHIGAN INTERFAITH VOICE
    one grant, 2019 · $29k · revenue 0% · 94% of their budget
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
Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy and Action in the Community

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…

Religion
2
Missouri Faith Voices Inc

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.

—
3
Washington Interfaith Network

To train leaders to address issues affecting public safety schools housing and jobs in their communities especially disadvantaged neighborhoods affordable housing and supportive housing.

Employment
4
Justice Organizing Interfaith Network

JOIN is a broad-based alliance of churches, nonprofits, and civic groups that helps ordinary citizens solve community issues they care about.

Religion
5
Faith in Indiana

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…

Human Services
6
Interchurch Coalition for Action Reconciliation and Empowerment

Congregations work toward being a powerful congregation-based community organization seeking justice and fairness for the citizens of Jacksonville.

Community Improvement
7
Interfaith Voices for Repro

Education and Advocacy We are an Organization of Interfaith and Progressive voices dedicated to affirming the moral authority of black women and girls

Civil Rights
8
Minnesota Voice

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.

Public Benefit
9
Ci Action Fund

Ci action fund will advocate for issues that improve outcomes for youth, immigrants, and black, indigenous, hispanic, disabled and youth of color (bihdyoc)

Civil Rights
10
Pico California

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…

Public Benefit
11
Fighting Against Injustice Towards Harmony Faith

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…

Education
12
Chasing Justice Together Foundation

Mobilizing a BIPOC led community toward a lifestyle of faith and justice

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 25 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PITTSBURGH INTERFAITH IMPACT NETWORK: $55,000 · Community ImprovementPITTSBURGH INTERFAITH IMP…FAITH COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD INC: $52,500 · Community ImprovementFAITH COALITION FOR THE C…MOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH): $51,750 · Community ImprovementMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGAN…PILSEN NEIGHBORS COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $43,750 · Community ImprovementPILSEN NEIGHBORS COMMUNIT…Genesis Interfaith Community Organizing: $42,125 · Community ImprovementGenesis Interfaith Commun…Gamaliel of California: $32,000 · Community ImprovementGamaliel of CaliforniaMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC: $122,750 · Civil RightsMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR …BRIDGE Maryland Inc: $76,200 · Civil RightsBRIDGE Maryland IncMEMPHIS INTERFAITH COALITION FOR ACTION AND HOPE: $58,750 · Civil RightsMEMPHIS INTERFAITH COAL…WISDOM INC: $206,000 · PhilanthropyWISDOM INCQUAD CITIES INTERFAITH: $74,500 · OtherQUAD CITIES INTERF…NASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPE: $35,000 · OtherNASHVILLE ORGANIZE…MICHIGAN INTERFAITH VOICE: $29,344 · OtherMICHIGAN INTERFAIT…ASAMBLEA DE DERECHOS CIVIL: $25,000 · OtherASAMBLEA DE DERECH…METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ST LOUIS: $23,750 · OtherMETROPOLITAN CONGR…ADVOCATES BUILDING LASTING EQUALITY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: $8,000 · Other+1 more: $5,500 · OtherACTION INC: $54,000 · ReligionACTION INCUNITED CONGREGATIONS OF METRO EAST: $44,594 · ReligionUNITED CONGR…CHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE: $40,750 · ReligionCHATTANOOGAN…Justice Overcoming Boundries JOB in San Diego County: $50,000 · EducationJustice Ove…ESCUCHA MI VOZ IOWA: $45,000 · EducationESCUCHA MI …RACINE INTERFAITH COALITION: $30,000 · EducationRACINE INTE…PUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA MINNESOTA: $10,000 · Human ServicesCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Community Improvement$277,125Civil Rights$257,700Philanthropy$206,000Other$201,094Religion$139,344Education$125,000Human Services$10,000Public Benefit$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISDOM INC: $206,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC: $122,750 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetBRIDGE Maryland Inc: $76,200 over 4y, 21% of budgetQUAD CITIES INTERFAITH: $74,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetMEMPHIS INTERFAITH COALITION FOR ACTION AND HOPE: $58,750 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH INTERFAITH IMPACT NETWORK: $55,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetFAITH COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD INC: $52,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH): $51,750 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJustice Overcoming Boundries JOB in San Diego County: $50,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetESCUCHA MI VOZ IOWA: $45,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetUNITED CONGREGATIONS OF METRO EAST: $44,594 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetPILSEN NEIGHBORS COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $43,750 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGenesis Interfaith Community Organizing: $42,125 over 3y, 14% of budgetCHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE: $40,750 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetNASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPE: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGamaliel of California: $32,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetRACINE INTERFAITH COALITION: $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMICHIGAN INTERFAITH VOICE: $29,344 over 1y, 94% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

United States Energy …NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundImpactassetsincDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United States Energy FoundationCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Impactassetsinc · 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 Gamaliel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gamaliel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Gamaliel Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gamaliel 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 25 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 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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