How much does The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation give?

The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $36,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Human Services (15%), Housing & Shelter (11%).

Who are The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc ($113k), Children's Aid and Family Services Inc ($37k), West Bergen Mental Healthcare Inc ($25k).

Does The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbia Bank Foundation, American Express Foundation, Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc.

The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation

The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family 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.

$37k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$138kHuman Services$44kHousing & Shelter$30kFood & Nutrition$26kArts & Culture$16kEducation$12kCivil Rights$7kAnimals$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $27k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$573k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$10,000
THE HEALTH WAGON	$4,000
CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC	$4,000
WEST BERGEN MENTAL HEALTHCARE	$3,000
COMMUNITY MEALS INC	$2,500
SEARCH (HOUSE OF TINY TREASURES)	$2,500
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE	$2,000
CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION	$1,500
RAMAPO BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE	$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$1,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
COVENANT HOUSE NJ INC	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$308k · 20 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 12 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

Total granted

$308k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+3%

Still filing today

75%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

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THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +157%
CA
CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +145%
WB
WEST BERGEN MENTAL HEALTHCARE INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +14%

Funded once

JY
Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc
one grant, 2017 · $2k
PP
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +3%
EVA'S VILLAGE INC
one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +6%

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.

Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment

St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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The Community Hospice Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the community hospice is a member of st. peter's health partners…

Human Services

Mercy Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Newyork-Presbyterianbrooklyn Methodist

To provide excellent healthcare services without regard to age, sex, race, creed, national origin or disability; to serve as an educational and research center for physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals; to provide health…

—

Hmh Hospitals Corporation

The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…

Health

Chs Services Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

—

St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Gotham Health Fqhc Inc

Gotham health fqhc, inc., operating together with new york city health and hospitals corporation under a public entity model federally qualified health center, provides you and your family with access to primary and preventative healthcare…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis - a Haven for Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York City Rescue Mission. 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

23 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. 23 of the 31 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/23

Grantees still filing

18/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$127,500Other$113,250Human Services$56,000Education$11,000Crime & Legal$8,000Animals$5,500Community Improvement$1,000

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.

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.

Columbia Bank FoundationNJ19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · American Express Foundation · Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc · Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Network for Good · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home