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The Galen Family 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 $10k10 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMMER MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT | $25,000 |
| DESERT X | $25,000 |
| NEWPORT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY | $12,000 |
| DO THE RIGHT THING | $10,000 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-TAMARISK SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| THE ARGYROS | $5,000 |
| ARTISTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY | $5,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM | $5,000 |
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, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 50 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- RMRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL9× · 2017–2025 · $445k · revenue +184% · 31% of their budget
- EMEisenhower Medical Center4× · 2020–2024 · $379k · revenue +66%
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM6× · 2017–2022 · $376k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -9%
- PSPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue 0%
- CFCLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -71%
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.
Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
Engage alumni to advance support of UC Berkeley.
Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…
The academy museum of motion pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. welcoming visitors from los angeles…
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wallis Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 132 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 RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Artists Council ↗
- Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
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 Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · Charity Works · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · The Hyman and Mintz Family 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 Galen Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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