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The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$17MHealth$6.8MEducation$3.3MInternational$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MFood & Nutrition$896kPublic Safety & Disaster$740kArts & Culture$488kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $630k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.8M
$30,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG SHOULDERS ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO$3,270,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$500,000
ST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$200,000
ST PIUS V CHURCH AND SCHOOL$150,000
GLOBAL GIVING FOUNDATION INC$150,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$100,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$100,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$100,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO$100,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO$100,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$100,000
NAMI - NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$100,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$100,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
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 (FY17–24, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%JOURNEYCARE INC: $50k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $50k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $50k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $50k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $50k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $50k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $40k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $40k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $30k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $30k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $30k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $30k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $30k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $30k → 14%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 82 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

82 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
9

Total granted

$31M
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+38%

Still filing today

54%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $690k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +4%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +162%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $448k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PIUS V SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
  • SP
    SUICIDE PREVENTION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +180%
  • CC
    CHICAGO CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
9
The Carle Foundation Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
10
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
11
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

52 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. 52 of the 97 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
40/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG SHOULDERS ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO: $16,267,378 · OtherBIG SHOULDERS ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGOST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1,320,000 · Other+60 more: $8,368,000 · Other+60 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $480,000 · HealthBLOOD CAN…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $470,000 · HealthDana-Farb…NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · HealthNATIONAL …MAYO CLINIC: $360,000 · HealthMAYO CLIN…NAMI National: $300,000 · HealthNAMI Nati…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 · HealthST JUDE C…ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $140,000 · HealthOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $100,000 · Health+4 more: $180,000 · Health+4 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $440,000 · Human ServicesElea Institute: $300,000 · Human ServicesCLEARBROOK: $260,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $40,000 · Human ServicesGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $300,000 · InternationalMARYCARE INC: $70,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $50,000 · InternationalGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $448,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $448,000 · Food & NutritionLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $200,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $120,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $120,000 · EducationFrancis W Parker School: $90,000 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $365,000 · Philanthropy
Other$25,955,378Health$2,770,000Human Services$1,100,000International$1,070,000Food & Nutrition$896,000Education$705,000Philanthropy$365,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $480,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $470,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $448,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $448,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $440,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $365,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $360,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetElea Institute: $300,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLEARBROOK: $260,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Interest Law Initiative: $140,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $140,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $100,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $100,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $100,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID CHICAGO: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSisters of Mary of Kakamega: $90,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARYCARE INC: $70,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $50,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCharity Navigator: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $20,000 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.

  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Elea Institute ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗
  • Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Public Interest Law Initiative ↗
  • Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationHelen V Brach Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
AbbVie FoundationIL13.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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.
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How do I get to The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Robert E Gallagher Charitable Trust 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 97 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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