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Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn

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.

$581k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$5.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$581k29%
FY202322$569k27%
FY202215$495k33%
FY202112$450k8%
FY202016$513k13%
FY201917$471k41%
FY201812$446k8%
FY201714$416kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.8MHealth$980kEnvironment$415kArts & Culture$170kReligion$145kHuman Services$75kInternational$51kCivil Rights$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
MO
VA
MD
DC
OK
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington College$559,50070%
Lankenau Medical Center Foundation$330,00080%
Kent School Inc$301,55263%
The Gunston School Inc$200,00081%
Johns Hopkins University$200,00020%
Yale University$155,0005n/a
Fair Hill Foundation Inc$150,000613%
Chester River Health Foundation Inc$135,00075%
Cornell University$120,00050%
Church Hill Theatre Inc$120,000318%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington College$559,50070%
Lankenau Medical Center Foundation$330,00080%
Kent School Inc$301,55263%
The Gunston School Inc$200,00081%
Johns Hopkins University$200,00020%
Yale University$155,0005n/a
Fair Hill Foundation Inc$150,000613%
Chester River Health Foundation Inc$135,00075%
Cornell University$120,00050%
Church Hill Theatre Inc$120,000318%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$110,00070%
Kimberton Waldorf School$105,00060%
Climate Institute$95,00044%
The Hill School$65,00080%
Kent School$50,00010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$50,00030%
Glenelg Country School Inc$50,00020%
Wait Until 8th$40,000128%
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association$25,00010%
Compass Regional Hospice Inc$20,00020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$20,00010%
Youversion Inc$15,0001n/a
Wye River Upper School Inc$11,00020%
Free Chapel Worship Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$10,00010%
The Oaks Ministry$5,00011%
Sightsavers Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($938k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington College: $559,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLankenau Medical Center Foundation: $330,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKent School Inc: $301,552 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetThe Gunston School Inc: $200,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFair Hill Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetChester River Health Foundation Inc: $135,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetCornell University: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChurch Hill Theatre Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKimberton Waldorf School: $105,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetClimate Institute: $95,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetThe Hill School: $65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKent School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlenelg Country School Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWait Until 8th: $40,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCharcot-Marie-Tooth Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCompass Regional Hospice Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWye River Upper School Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oaks Ministry: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSightsavers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Fordi Family Foundation IncMD15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fordi Family Foundation Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Bernard and Betty Hardesty Charitable Foundation Inc · The Salmon Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn

How much does Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn give?
Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn reported 24 grants totaling $581,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Health (25%), Environment (11%).
Who are Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Washington College ($560k), Lankenau Medical Center Foundation ($330k), Kent School Inc ($302k).
Does Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn 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 Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fordi Family Foundation Inc, David a Bramble Foundation Inc, Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn based?
Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn is based in OH.

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 43 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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