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Robert Galvin Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,275,000 |
| RARE | $300,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $275,000 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION | $250,000 |
| DEVELOPMENT | $250,000 |
| KIDSPACE MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| SANTA FE INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING | $100,000 |
| WEITZMAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY | $100,000 |
| UCSF SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
91 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $657k 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
- RRARE7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +2%
- VHVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $1.6M · revenue +210% · 32% of their budget
SANTA FE INSTITUTE6× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +348%
Funded once
- HHHUNTINGTON HOSPITAL - PASADENAone grant, 2020 · $300k
- EVEAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +23%
- NFNORTHSHORE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $200k
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.
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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,…
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Education and Research
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 58 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 130 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 RARE ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY-WARREN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Paul Galvin Memorial Foundation Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Robert Galvin 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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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