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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $4k
- $250k+6 grants · $9.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Freer Foundation | $2,550,235 |
| OurBlueSeas Foundation | $2,550,235 |
| MB Gale Foundation | $2,550,235 |
| MB Gale Foundation | $488,743 |
| Freer Foundation | $488,743 |
| OurBlueSeas Foundation | $488,742 |
| OurBlueSeas Foundation | $1,223 |
| Freer Foundation | $1,222 |
| MBGale Foundation | $1,222 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +66% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.1M 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
- COCOMMUNITY OF HOPE4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +159%
- LWLIVING WELL MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +27%
- BWBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $130k · revenue +389%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND KEYS INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +23%
- SLST LAWRENCE BASILICA PRESERVATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $60k
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.
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Bios's mission is to seek and share fundamental knowledge of the oceans through state-of-the-art scientific research, world-class field expeditions, and comprehensive educational experiences.
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually…
The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)
We are a grassroots organization focused on the critical environmental issues of sw florida. we accomplish this through a myriad of efforts by the teams in our programmatic departments: science, policy, education and wildlife…
Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute (the Institute) was organized pursuant to the General Nonprofit Corporation Law of the State of California. The primary purpose for which the Institute was formed is to conduct biological, environmental,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is OurBlueSeas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 91% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 70 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 M B Gale Foundation ↗
- Who funds Freer Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAINE WILDERNESS WATERSHED TRUST INC DBA PIERCE POND WATERSHED TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LIVING WELL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds Walking With Him 6 Inc ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BONOBO CONSERVATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FRESTA VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA BAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Gale Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community of Hope — 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% 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.
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