· Private foundation
Thomas E & Mary K Gallagher 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRI RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE GUINN CENTER | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| STATE OF PLAY PRODUCTIONS | $3,000 |
| STEP 2 INC | $2,500 |
| PAX PEACE BY PEACE FUND | $2,500 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT WEST | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COACHELLA VALEEY | $2,500 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DRDRI RESEARCH FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +184% · 35% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $168k · revenue +18%
- LALEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA4× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- STSky Tavern Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +59%
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSSone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -6%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Nevada Public Television and the most unlike its peers is Pathways Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 50 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 DRI RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Sky Tavern Inc ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE APPELLATE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds Unamesa Association ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds STEP 2 INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
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: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Thomas E & Mary K Gallagher 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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