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Paul Galvin Memorial Foundation Trust at a glance

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Paul Galvin Memorial Foundation 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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$9.0MHealth$5.7MPhilanthropy$3.4MEducation$1.6MSocial Science$1.5MEnvironment$1.2MYouth Development$1.2MInternational$940kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $439k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.4M
$12,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO FOUNDATION$600,000
HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL - PASADENA$600,000
VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION$350,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER$300,000
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND & INT'L STUDIES$250,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$250,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$102,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$100,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$100,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$100,000
MAGICAL STRINGS OF YOUTH$100,000
SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB$100,000
THE JOFFREY BALLET$100,000
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO$100,000
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 (FY17–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1k → 14%BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $1k → 14%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
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 89 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
35

Total granted

$24M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+72%

Still filing today

52%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 & CultureEducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JOFFREY BALLET
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +90%
  • VH
    VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +97%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • U
    USC
    one grant, 2017 · $2.1M
  • R
    RAREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +87%
  • KC
    KENNEDY CENTER CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
7
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
9
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
10
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife 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

63 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. 63 of the 129 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
49/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO FOUNDATION: $2,450,000 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATIONUSC: $2,100,000 · OtherUSCHUNTINGTON HOSPITAL - PASADENA: $1,500,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON HOSPITAL - PASADENAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $700,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $500,000 · OtherMAGICAL STRINGS OF YOUTH: $500,000 · OtherTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $510,000 · Other+90 more: $6,614,935 · Other+90 moreTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $5,550,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLETChicago Symphony Orchestra: $500,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony OrchestraLyric Opera of Chicago: $500,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of ChicagoRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $580,300 · Arts & Culture+8 moreVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,400,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH…Jupiter Medical Center Inc: $900,000 · HealthJupiter Med…Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $500,000 · HealthRehabilitat…THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL: $200,000 · HealthTHE INSTITU…+1 more: $54,000 · HealthCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $968,000 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $250,000 · InternationalREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 · International+3 more: $90,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $1,068,000 · Social ScienceUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $125,000 · PhilanthropyChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropyWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $400,000 · EnvironmentRARE: $300,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Environment
Other$14,874,935Arts & Culture$7,380,300Health$3,054,000International$1,408,000Social Science$1,068,000Philanthropy$760,000Environment$760,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $5,550,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,400,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $1,068,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $968,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $900,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $510,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $400,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $400,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRARE: $300,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $250,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA FE INSTITUTE: $225,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL: $200,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM: $150,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetVANDERCOOK COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC: $125,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $112,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $75,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Cradle Society: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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 THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
  • Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds RARE ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL ↗
  • Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
  • Who funds KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds VANDERCOOK COLLEGE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗

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.

Robert Galvin Foundat…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …The Robert Thomas Bob…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…The Canning FoundationCarol Bernick Family …Robert R McCormick Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Robert Galvin FoundationIL43.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert Galvin Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Canning Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report 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 129 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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