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The Galaxy Foundation Inc

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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
110
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$978kHuman Services$330kPhilanthropy$213kHousing & Shelter$204kReligion$200kHealth$158kPublic Safety & Disaster$147kArts & Culture$139kOther$0
02FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k59 grants · $199k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $635k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $490k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$7,500
Median grant
24
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALVERNO COLLEGE$400,000
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO$125,000
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS$80,000
ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$75,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES USCCB$60,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA$35,000
HOUSE OF PEACE$30,000
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATRE INC$30,000
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP$25,000
VERSITI INC$23,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC$20,000
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES$20,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$20,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–24, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%ST TERESA MINISTRIES: $11k → 18%WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 5%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES: $2k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 19%SAINT JOHN'S COMMUNITIES INC DBA SAINT JOHN'S ON THE LAKE: $15k → 17%WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $2k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%PAVE: $8k → 17%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
WY
SD
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 41 repeat orgs$915k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
49

Total granted

$1.7M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+38%

Still filing today

68%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $715k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO
    3× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +24%
  • ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +242%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • SC
    ST COLETTA OF WI GRACE LANDING
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • BC
    BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • DB
    DREAM BIKES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -47%
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
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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3
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
4
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
5
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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6
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
7
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
8
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment
9
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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10
Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc

Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…

Crime & Legal
11
Wisconsin Bankers Association

We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.

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12
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Richard Haiman National Parks Fndtn Inc. 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

105 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. 105 of the 169 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/105
Grantees still filing
55/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALVERNO COLLEGE: $720,000 · EducationALVERNO COLLEGEMarquette University: $50,000 · EducationMarquette UniversityUNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL INC: $32,000 · Education+10 more: $79,000 · Education+10 moreCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $145,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESNOTRE DAME SCHOOL: $60,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $51,000 · OtherGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INCWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $41,000 · Other+112 more: $780,890 · Other+112 moreACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $130,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSt Bakhita Catholic Worker Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO: $140,000 · Religion+1 more: $2,000 · ReligionUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S COMMUNITIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesST TERESA MINISTRIES INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN: $8,000 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Human Services+5 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $14,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $10,800 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTEN CHIMNEYS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $80,000 · HealthVERSITI INC: $23,000 · HealthLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $12,000 · HealthGUEST HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Health+6 more: $14,500 · Health
Education$881,000Other$1,177,890Housing & Shelter$160,000Religion$142,000Human Services$140,000Arts & Culture$139,800Health$139,500

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 budgetALVERNO COLLEGE: $720,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO: $140,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $130,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $80,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMarquette University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $41,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL INC: $32,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetVERSITI INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $23,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST BIKESHARE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDREAM BIKES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING BRAVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S COMMUNITIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENEDICT CENTER INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $13,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKRADWELL SCHOOL INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetST TERESA MINISTRIES INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $10,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSt Bakhita Catholic Worker Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBICYCLE FEDERATION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTTEES SINSINAWA DOMINICANS INC - ETF: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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 Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Baird Foundation IncArchdiocese of Milwau…Windhover Foundation …Madison Community Fou…Anon Charitable TrustGe Aerospace Foundati…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI66× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Windhover Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer 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 Galaxy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Galaxy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
24report 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.
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How do I get to The Galaxy Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Galaxy Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 169 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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