· Private foundation
The Gailo Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLEY THEATRE | $50,272 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $10,000 |
| SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ROCCO | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN'S SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST | $3,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| HOUSTON HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- ATALLEY THEATRE8× · 2017–2024 · $194k · revenue +107%
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +14%- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- VOVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2018 · $29k
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +36%- AAJCone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Houston Center for Photography (HCP) strives to encourage artists, build audiences, stimulate dialogue, and promote inquiry about photography and related media through education, exhibitions, publications, fellowship programs, and…
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
The mission of Houston Institute is to help the people of Rice University think deeply about the best way to live through the study of the liberal arts especially philosophy and literature. Our goal is to help students become better…
See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…
The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Rothko Chapel ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CINEMA ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Houston's Future Inc ↗
- Who funds INPRINT INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter ↗
- Who funds THE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds DAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Project GRAD Houston ↗
- Who funds Children At Risk ↗
- Who funds Homemade Hope for Homeless Children ↗
- Who funds Nine Gates Programs Inc ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
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.
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
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 Gailo Trust 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.