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The Eloise Susanna Gale 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.

$303k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$216k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$2.8MEducation$115kInternational$50kPhilanthropy$15kRecreation & Sports$4kYouth Development$3kReligion$240Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $266k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PARIS OPERA & B$216,000
AMERCIAN FRIENDS OF PARIS OPERA & B$50,000
DANCE DOWNTOWN LA$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PARIS OPERA & B$6,892
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PARIS OPERA & B$214
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 15 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$2.8M
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+0%

Still filing today

47%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsCrime & 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

  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +17%
  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +52%
  • LE
    LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM
    2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • I
    IFILAF
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • ET
    EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -18%
  • LO
    Lyric Opera of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +33%

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
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
New York City Charter School of the Arts

New york city charter school of the arts (the "school") inspires a diverse community of young people to engage with the arts as a pathway to rich and rigorous academic scholarship and a creative, purposeful life.

Education
4
French-American School of New York

Fasny develops globally literate, multi-cultural lifelong learners through a unique program that integrates french, american, and international curricula.

Arts & Culture
5
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

6
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

7
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
8
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
9
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
10
New York School of the Arts Inc

New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture,printmaking,art theory and other subjects.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

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

12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sparkyouth Nyc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shoshana Foundation Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 31 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PARIS OPERA & B — $1,421,894 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PARIS OPERA & BAMERCIAN FRIENDS OF PARIS OPERA & B — $694,550 · OtherAMERCIAN FRIENDS OF PARIS OPERA & B+14 more — $196,431 · Other+14 moreDANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT — $464,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC…LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM — $27,500 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chicago — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $12,650 · Arts & CultureAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $60,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN — $35,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC — $15,000 · InternationalCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesSPARKYOUTH NYC INC — $2,500 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF NORTHWEST BROOKLYN INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $1,965 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,312,875Arts & Culture$554,150Education$95,500International$15,000Human Services$2,500Crime & Legal$2,500Philanthropy$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,965

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT — $464,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM — $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT GREENE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,650 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF NORTHWEST BROOKLYN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $1,965 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOSHANA FOUNDATION INC — $240 over 1y, 0.4% 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 DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN
  • Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM
  • Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC
  • Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago
  • Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC
  • Who funds FORT GREENE PARK CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
  • Who funds SPARKYOUTH NYC INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NORTHWEST BROOKLYN INC
  • Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SHOSHANA FOUNDATION 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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Eloise Susanna Gale 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Eloise Susanna Gale Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Eloise Susanna Gale 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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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