· Private foundation
The David M Gabrielsen 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOLDORG | $30,000 |
| THE MUSIC SETTLEMENT | $20,000 |
| RAINEY INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| HIRAM HOUSE CAMP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ROAD WORTHY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The David M Gabrielsen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT6× · 2017–2023 · $86k · revenue +236%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +74%
- TMTHE MARY PARRISH CENTER3× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +319%
Funded once
- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +22%
- MFMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- OIOCEANA INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -28%
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.
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.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
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…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WALDEN WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds RURAL WATER VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARY PARRISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The David M Gabrielsen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David M Gabrielsen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project: 6% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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