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Robert T Galkin Foundation

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.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Health$265kSocial Science$185kPhilanthropy$158kInternational$93kYouth Development$45kCivil Rights$44kHuman Services$40kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$40,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE$70,000
MIRIAM HOSPITAL$50,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$40,000
WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS$40,000
RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
HOPE HEALTH HOSPICE CENTER$10,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$10,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $40k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $40k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
RI
CA
TN
OK
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$714k · 15 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$714k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+57%

Still filing today

40%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TA
    THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $185k · revenue +55%
  • The Miriam Hospital
    5× · 2019–2025 · $112k · revenue +40%
  • WF
    WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS
    3× · 2022–2025 · $83k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • WB
    WARWICK BOYS CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • UF
    UKRAINE FUNDRAISER (NATEC PRODUCTS FUNDRAISER)
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • BC
    BRYANT COVID-19 FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
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.

4
Boston Architectural College

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

5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
6
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
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
10
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

12
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $50,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITALRI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $35,000 · OtherRI COMMUNITY FOOD BANKMISCELLANEOUS — $30,300 · OtherMISCELLANEOUSPROVIDENCE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $30,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBRI CENTER FOR FREEDOM — $27,375 · OtherRI CENTER FOR FREEDOMJEWISH ALLIANCE — $16,000 · OtherJEWISH ALLIANCEWARWICK BOYS CLUB — $15,000 · OtherHOPE HEALTH HOSPICE CENTER — $15,000 · OtherJAPAN AMERICA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherUKRAINE FUNDRAISER (NATEC PRODUCTS FUNDRAISER) — $10,000 · OtherRI AVIATION HALL OF FAME — $9,600 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY — $10,100 · Other+6 more — $27,550 · Other+6 moreTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM — $185,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AYN RAND INSTITUT…THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $158,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE ISLAND C…WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS — $82,500 · Human ServicesWHEELCHAIRS FO…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIO…The Miriam Hospital — $112,000 · HealthThe Miriam Ho…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $82,500 · InternationalFRIENDS O…+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalPacific Legal Foundation — $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$285,925Arts & Culture$185,000Philanthropy$158,000Human Services$122,500Health$112,000International$83,500Crime & Legal$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM — $185,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $158,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital — $112,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS — $82,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $82,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $8,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE HALL SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM
  • Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Miriam Hospital
  • Who funds WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
  • Who funds HERITAGE HALL SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds PROJECT VERITAS
  • Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES 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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 T Galkin 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Robert T Galkin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert T Galkin 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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