· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HAR-EL | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT | $25,000 |
| DESERT X | $25,000 |
| NEWPORT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY | $12,000 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| DO THE RIGHT THING | $10,000 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-TAMARISK SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| THE ARGYROS | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY | $5,000 |
| WAM AT CLEVELAND CLINIC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- PSPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +10%
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -9%
- CFCLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -71%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- 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 THE WICKERS FOUNDATION ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Galen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Galen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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