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Gately Foundation A California Charitable Trust at a glance

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Gately Foundation A California Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$318k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$193k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$707kEducation$222kHealth$217kHousing & Shelter$177kHuman Services$57kReligion$56kEnvironment$43kYouth Development$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $193k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pet Network Humane Society$193,200
Individual grant recipient$28,250
Individual grant recipient$24,000
Kids and Horses$17,000
Red Feather Development Group$15,000
Tahoe Fund$15,000
Homeward Bound$10,000
Walker Basin Conservancy$7,950
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival$2,500
Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation$100
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 (FY18–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%ReImagine Mack Road Foundation: $13k → 12%Wind Youth Services: $2k → 12%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$466k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
29

Total granted

$1.5M
$443k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+49%

Still filing today

32%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • PN
    Pet Network Humane Society
    8× · 2018–2025 · $634k · revenue +76%
  • TF
    TAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $57k · revenue +102%
  • TF
    TAHOE FUND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • SH
    Shriners Hospital
    one grant, 2017 · $147k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $103k
  • CC
    Capital Christian High School
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…

Environment
2
Tahoe Community Foundation

The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.

Education
3
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
4
Tahoe Institute for Natural Science

To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.

Environment
5
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
6
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
7
Sierra State Parks Foundation

The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…

Recreation & Sports
8
Tahoe Maritime Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Friends of Washoe
Animals
10
Sacramento Kings Foundation
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11
Alaska Whale Foundation

Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.

Environment
12
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Family Solutions Inc; the most unlike its peers is Setzer Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 52 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $155,232 · OtherIndividual grant recipientShriners Hospital: $147,256 · OtherShriners HospitalST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $145,649 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOLHomeward Bound: $132,500 · OtherHomeward BoundIndividual grant recipient: $102,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $69,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFront Street Animal Shelter: $55,000 · OtherRed Feather: $40,000 · Other+33 more: $290,792 · Other+33 morePet Network Humane Society: $633,647 · AnimalsPet Network Humane SocietyKIDS AND HORSES INC: $53,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · HealthAnother Choice Another Chance: $3,500 · Health+1 more: $1,120 · HealthTAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $57,000 · Youth DevelopmentTAHOE FUND: $25,000 · EnvironmentWALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY: $17,950 · EnvironmentRED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterREIMAGINE MACK ROAD FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Human ServicesWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$1,138,879Animals$633,647Health$62,620Youth Development$57,000Environment$42,950Housing & Shelter$15,000Human Services$14,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPet Network Humane Society: $633,647 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetTAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $57,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetKIDS AND HORSES INC: $53,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetTAHOE FUND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY: $17,950 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREIMAGINE MACK ROAD FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairytale Town Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnother Choice Another Chance: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbie Aware Inc: $1,120 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFiddyment Farm Elementary PTC: $850 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMiss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE: $100 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.

  • Who funds Pet Network Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
  • Who funds WALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP ↗
  • Who funds REIMAGINE MACK ROAD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS ↗
  • Who funds Kings Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Fairytale Town Inc ↗
  • Who funds Another Choice Another Chance ↗
  • Who funds LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗

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.

Sacramento Region Com…The Donant FoundationUnited Way California…Tahoe Community Found…Teichert FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · The Donant Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Tahoe Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Gately Foundation A California Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gately Foundation A California Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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.

    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 52 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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