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Melvyn P and Eleanor N Galin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Melvyn P and Eleanor N Galin Family Foundation Inc

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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$12kEducation$11kHealth$8kHuman Services$4kPhilanthropy$2kArts & Culture$1kMembership Benefit$700Civil Rights$622Other$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$3,500
CONGREGATION AGUDATH ACHIM$2,795
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$2,500
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION$2,250
SAVANNAH JEWISH FOUNDATION$2,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000
CREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES$1,800
HADASSAH$1,025
ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY FOUNDATION$300
JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND$300
FEEDING AMERICA$250
YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY$250
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$250
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$250
FUR KIDS$250
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $250 → 12%WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $200 → 22%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTHAMOLOGY: $100 → 10%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200 → 17%CHABAD: $100 → 20%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INST ON AGING: $500 → 16%ETV ENDOWMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $80 → 15%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: $54 → 14%B'NAI B'RITH INTERNATIONAL: $200 → 17%FUR KIDS: $250 → 4%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%See Attached Schedule: $42k → 16%ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY FOUNDATION: $400 → 16%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $250 → 12%HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $250 → 17%CHABAD: $50 → 20%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: $50 → 14%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%See Attached Schedule: $41k → 16%ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY FOUNDATION: $300 → 16%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $300 → 13%See Attached Schedule: $37k → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $50 → 13%See Attached Schedule: $33k → 16%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $26k → 16%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $22k → 16%CONGREGATION AGUDATH ACHIM: $8k → 16%CONGREGATION AGUDATH ACHIM: $3k → 16%SAVANNAH JEWISH FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%SAVANNAH JEWISH FOUNDATION: $100 → 16%COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY: $225 → 16%COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY: $100 → 16%GEORGIA HISTORIAL SOCIETY: $65 → 16%GEORGIA HISTORIAL SOCIETY: $65 → 16%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

ME
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
KS
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 19 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
5

Total granted

$36k
$930

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+2%

Still filing today

47%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthOther
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

  • SIMMONS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +46%
  • CC
    CREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INST ON AGING
    one grant, 2024 · $500
  • BW
    BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $200
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100 · revenue +2%
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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
American Society of International Law

To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.

International
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Computer History Museum

Chm decodes technology - its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.

Arts & Culture
9
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

The gilder lehrman institute of american history was founded in 1994 by richard gilder and lewis e. lehrman, visionaries and lifelong supporters of american history. the institute is the leading nonprofit and nonpartisan organization…

Education
10
Archaeological Institute of America

The archaeological institute of america (aia) promotes archaeological inquiry and public understanding of the material record of the human past to foster an appreciation of the diverse cultures and our shared humanity. the aia supports…

Arts & Culture
11
New England Historic Genealogical Society

New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…

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12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Milwaukee B'nai B'rith Non-Profit Housing Corporation-Covenant House. 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

26 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. 26 of the 45 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION AGUDATH ACHIM: $10,719 · OtherCONGREGATION AGUDATH ACHIMUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $7,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERSAVANNAH JEWISH FOUNDATION: $2,100 · OtherSAVANNAH JEWISH FOUNDATIONHADASSAH: $1,050 · Other+25 more: $5,041 · Other+25 moreSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITYGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCIndiana University Foundation: $2,000 · EducationIndiana University FoundationCREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC: $3,600 · Human ServicesCREATING …+1 more: $50 · Human ServicesAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $200 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $200 · Arts & CultureTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $80 · Arts & CultureETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $80 · Arts & CultureHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $250 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $200 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $36 · InternationalFURKIDS INC: $250 · AnimalsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $250 · Civil Rights
Other$25,910Education$11,000Human Services$3,650Arts & Culture$760International$586Animals$250Civil Rights$250

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $130 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $36 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.

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.

The Savannah Communit…Mary Lane Morrison Fo…The Dunn FoundationColonial Foundation I…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc · The Dunn Foundation · Colonial Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 Melvyn P and Eleanor N Galin Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvyn P and Eleanor N Galin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 45 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home