Illinois · Private foundation
The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust
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.
- $6.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2024
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,270,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $960k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 64 | $6.7M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $5.7M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $4.8M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $4.1M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $3.7M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $2.4M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 60 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $480,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $470,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $448,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $448,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $440,000 | 7 | 0% |
| National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Foundation for Women | $365,000 | 8 | 25% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Pius V Church & School | $300,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Elea Institute | $300,000 | 6 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: AbbVie Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust
- How much does The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust give?
- The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust reported 65 grants totaling $6,770,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Health (21%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Blood Cancer United Inc ($480k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($470k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($448k).
- Does The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Helen V Brach Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust based?
- The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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