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The Gabriel Foundation at a glance

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The Gabriel 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.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$162kEducation$33kCivil Rights$11kFood & Nutrition$9kHuman Services$7kHealth$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOSEPH CHURCH$23,800
ST LOUIS ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL$5,000
THE CROSSING$2,500
UNBOUND$480
SHRINE OF ST PHILIPPINE DUCHESNE$300
AMERICAN UNITED FAMILY LIFE$206
02The need
03

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 (FY17–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNBOUND: $792 → 16%Unbound: $480 → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $1k → 21%UNBOUND: $436 → 16%BUDDY FUND: $1k → 21%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 21%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $1k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IN
OH
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$238k · 24 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
31

Total granted

$238k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+21%

Still filing today

33%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AU
    Americans United for Life Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • IW
    INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +8%
  • TR
    THE ROOTED SISTERS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +436%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

1
A Choice for Life Inc

Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…

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2
Missouri Right to Life

Educate the public about abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia and to support positive alternatives to abortion.

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3
Avila University

Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…

Education
4
Liberty Womens Clinic

Liberty Women's Clinic ministers with the love of Christ by empowering people to make informed, life-affirming decisions about pregnancy, sexual health, and relationships.

Health
5
Right to Life of Southwest Indiana

To promote concern for the sanctity of human life.

Civil Rights
6
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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7
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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8
St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc

St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…

Unclassified
9
Catholic Charities Bloomington Inc

Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…

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10
New Life Solutions Inc

To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.

Health
11
Indiana Right to Life Incorporated

To educate the public about abortion

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12
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Students for Life of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Room at the Inn. 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 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOSEPH PARISH: $55,405 · OtherST JOSEPH PARISHST JOSEPH CHURCH: $46,425 · OtherST JOSEPH CHURCHARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $30,250 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUISIndividual grant recipient: $18,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBarat Academy: $14,000 · OtherBarat AcademyST PATRICK SCHOOL AND PARISH: $14,000 · OtherST PATRICK SCHOOL AND PARISHIndividual grant recipient: $10,610 · OtherTHE CROSSING CHURCH: $9,000 · Other+33 more: $46,691 · Other+33 moreAmericans United for Life Inc: $10,250 · Civil Rights+1 more: $200 · Civil RightsFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $3,000 · Human ServicesUnbound: $1,708 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE BUDDY FUND: $1,000 · Human ServicesKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $2,796 · ReligionTHE ROOTED SISTERS: $2,000 · ReligionDr James Dobson Family Institute: $500 · ReligionHome for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor: $200 · ReligionINCARNATE WORD ACADEMY: $3,100 · EducationZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $500 · EducationAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,500 · HealthTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $1,000 · HealthFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $1,600 · International
Other$244,881Civil Rights$10,450Human Services$6,708Religion$5,496Education$4,100Health$2,500International$1,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBarat Academy: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc: $10,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINCARNATE WORD ACADEMY: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $2,796 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROOTED SISTERS: $2,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUnbound: $1,708 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUDDY FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDr James Dobson Family Institute: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHome for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Right to Life - Eastern: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoom at the Inn: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI FAMILY POLICY COUNCIL: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Barat Academy ↗
  • Who funds Americans United for Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE ROOTED SISTERS ↗
  • Who funds Unbound ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BUDDY FUND ↗
  • Who funds ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…Servant FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…The Pfizer Foundation…The Signatry Charitab…United Way WorldwideRaymond James Charita…Edward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · United Way Worldwide · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Gabriel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gabriel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home