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The Gallagher Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $643k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
- $250k+2 grants · $663k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARKE UNIVERSITY | $348,333 |
| LORAS COLLEGE | $315,000 |
| ST EDWARD'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $80,000 |
| CEDAR VALLEY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $70,000 |
| GROUT MUSEUM INC | $65,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $45,500 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $44,286 |
| NAMI DUBUQUE | $35,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK INC | $35,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE | $30,000 |
| WATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $20,000 |
| CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE | $20,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION IN THE | $20,000 |
| YOUTH ART TEAM | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
74 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- LCLORAS COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +11%
- CUClarke University of Dubuque Iowa8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +10%
- GMGROUT MUSEUM INC7× · 2018–2024 · $376k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SSST STEPHENS THE WITNESSone grant, 2019 · $15k
- FSFLORIDA SOUTHWESTER STATE COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SEST EDWARD'S CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Working to increase the economic vitality and wealth in the waterloo/cedar falls area and surrounding economic region.
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
The mission of veridian credit union is to partner with members to create successful financial futures.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterloo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Hartman Reserve Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 86 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 LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds GROUT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HARTMAN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF WATERLOO IOWA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ALLEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN ↗
- Who funds Cedar Valley Chamber Music Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds JOB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid Foundation ↗
- Who funds Youth Art Team ↗
- Who funds HW GROUT TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY YMCA OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
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: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · Cedar Valley United Way · Duroe Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation · R J McElroy Trust · GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation 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 Gallagher 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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