Texas · Private foundation
The Gailo Trust
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.
- $153k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $648k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Gailo Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $153k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $127k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $120k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $87k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $83k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $90k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $88k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $105k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alley Theatre | $256,522 | 9 | 0% |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $111,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Menil Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $39,550 | 9 | 0% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St John's School | $24,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Institute of Noetic Sciences | $24,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $20,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Rothko Chapel | $17,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gailo Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Madison Charitable Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation
How this is measured
About The Gailo Trust
- How much does The Gailo Trust give?
- The Gailo Trust reported 37 grants totaling $152,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gailo Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Education (24%), Science & Tech (12%).
- Who are The Gailo Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alley Theatre ($257k), Sarah Lawrence College ($111k), Menil Foundation Inc ($45k).
- Does The Gailo Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gailo Trust 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 Gailo Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Mechia Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc.
- Where is The Gailo Trust based?
- The Gailo Trust is based in TX.
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