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The Gallagher Foundation at a glance

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The Gallagher 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.

$33k
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
7
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$127kHousing & Shelter$100kHuman Services$83kInternational$31kHealth$20kPhilanthropy$15kEnvironment$4k
02FY2022 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$222k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
STAR OF HOPE$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
TOYS FOR TOTS$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS HOUSTON$2,000
FEED THE CHILDREN$1,000
COVENANT HOUSE$1,000
MERCY SHIPS FOUNDATION$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
NO KID HUNGRY$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $7k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $2k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CT
VA
AR
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$349k · 16 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
4

Total granted

$349k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+14%

Still filing today

75%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22
Human ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • The Houston Food Bank
    2× · 2020–2021 · $108k · revenue +36%
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +45%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • NR
    NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • CW
    CITY WIDE CLUB COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +14%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
5
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
6
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
7
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
8
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
11
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
12
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed the Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Covenant House Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Houston Food Bank: $108,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankSALVATION ARMY: $50,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYNEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherNEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYMEALS ON WHEELS HOUSTON: $9,000 · Other+3 more: $12,000 · OtherSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterSTAR OF HOPE MISSIONCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $12,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesOpen Door Mission: $3,000 · Human ServicesLiving Water International: $3,000 · Human ServicesMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyMercy Ships Foundation: $4,000 · PhilanthropyMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 · InternationalGREENPEACE FUND INC: $2,500 · Environment
Other$229,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Human Services$29,500Philanthropy$19,000International$13,500Environment$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $108,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Mission: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Water International: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gallagher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gallagher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Gallagher Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gallagher 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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