Ohio · Private foundation
The Gale Foundation
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.
- $9.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $488,743
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,550,235
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations The Gale Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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 | 3 | $9.1M | 100% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $609k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $497k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $670k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $389k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $382k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $163k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freer Foundation | $3,040,200 | 1 | 84% |
| M B Gale Foundation | $3,040,200 | 1 | 84% |
| OurBlueSeas | $3,040,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Wilderness Watershed Trust Inc Dba Pierce Pond Watershed Trust | $300,000 | 2 | 51% |
| New Life Missions Inc | $185,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Community of Hope | $150,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Living Well Ministries Inc | $145,000 | 5 | 23% |
| Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Miami | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($682k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gale Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · M B Gale Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Gale Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Gale Foundation 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.
About The Gale Foundation
- How much does The Gale Foundation give?
- The Gale Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $9,120,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Gale Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (70%), Religion (14%), Education (4%).
- Who are The Gale Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Freer Foundation ($3.0M), M B Gale Foundation ($3.0M), OurBlueSeas ($3.0M).
- Does The Gale Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gale Foundation 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 Gale Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, M B Gale Foundation, Dogwood Health Trust.
- Where is The Gale Foundation based?
- The Gale Foundation is based in OH.
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