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The Gailo Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$310kEducation$226kScience & Tech$113kHealth$82kHuman Services$42kReligion$32kCommunity Improvement$17kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$648k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLEY THEATRE$50,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$15,000
THE MENIL COLLECTION$12,500
ALLEY THEATRE$10,000
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE$10,000
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$5,000
THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF TEXAS$5,000
ALLEY THEATRE$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST$3,000
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL$3,000
ROCCO$3,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON$2,000
INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES$2,000
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 (FY17–23, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DOROT: $1k → 17%DOROT: $900 → 17%HOUSTON APHASIA RECOVERY CENTER: $1k → 16%BAKER RIPLEY: $3k → 16%BAKER RIPLEY: $1k → 16%BAKER RIPLEY: $1k → 16%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$911k · 48 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
32

Total granted

$911k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • AT
    ALLEY THEATRE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $257k · revenue +107%
  • SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +14%
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • VO
    VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2018 · $29k
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +36%
  • HH
    HOUSTON HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
3
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
4
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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5
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Byrne Institute

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…

Education
7
The Awty International School

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…

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8
Houston Center for Photography Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
10
The Heritage Society

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…

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11
Houston Academy of Medicine

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.

Education
12
Wonderworks

Wonderworks educates students to become better-qualified college applicants and better equipped to succeed in undergraduate studies by exploring challenging subject matter and techniques in a college setting.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanities Texas; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 87 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
41/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLEY THEATRE: $256,522 · Arts & CultureALLEY THEATREMenil Foundation Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMenil Foundation IncTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $20,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONHOUSTON CINEMA ARTS SOCIETY: $16,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $30,150 · Arts & Culture+15 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $61,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINROCCO: $41,000 · OtherROCCOTHE JUNG CENTER: $29,500 · OtherTHE JUNG CENTERVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: $29,215 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONSSt John's School: $24,500 · OtherSt John's SchoolRANSOM CENTER UNIV TX: $16,700 · OtherINPRINT INC: $13,000 · OtherTHE WATERMILL CENTER: $12,000 · OtherAmerican Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter: $11,500 · Other+42 more: $88,524 · Other+42 moreSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $111,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGEPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $90,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of …William Marsh Rice University: $39,550 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice Univer…+4 more: $6,800 · EducationTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $36,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $17,500 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $11,000 · HealthDAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $8,500 · HealthNine Gates Programs Inc: $3,500 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES: $24,000 · Science & TechRothko Chapel: $17,500 · ReligionEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $3,500 · ReligionCenter for Houston's Future Inc: $14,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$368,172Other$326,939Education$247,350Health$78,000Science & Tech$24,000Religion$21,000Community Improvement$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLEY THEATRE: $256,522 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $111,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $39,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's School: $24,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES: $24,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRothko Chapel: $17,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CINEMA ARTS SOCIETY: $16,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Houston's Future Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetINPRINT INC: $13,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter: $11,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $8,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $8,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBakerRipley: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNine Gates Programs Inc: $3,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomemade Hope for Homeless Children: $3,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetProject GRAD Houston: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren At Risk: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOROT INC: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBo's Place: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Houston: $1,666 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDawn Mountain: $1,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFotofest Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Corps Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInstitute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION OF YAHWEH INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Aphasia Recovery Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMICKEY LELAND KIBBUTZIM INTERNSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 ALLEY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St John's School ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Rothko Chapel ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON CINEMA ARTS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Center for Houston's Future Inc ↗
  • Who funds INPRINT INC ↗
  • Who funds American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds DAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BakerRipley ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
  • Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
  • Who funds Nine Gates Programs Inc ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds Homemade Hope for Homeless Children ↗
  • Who funds Project GRAD Houston ↗
  • Who funds Children At Risk ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Mechia FoundationHouston Endowment IncThe Brown Foundation …Albert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…Madison Charitable Fo…The Elkins FoundationMarek Family Foundati…The Powell FoundationThe Stanford & Joan A…MD Anderson Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX33.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Gailo Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gailo Trust. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 87 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home