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Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $415k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $155k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHURCH HILL THEATER$55,000
KENT SCHOOL$50,000
LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$50,000
WAIT UNTIL 8TH$40,000
CROSS WORLD USAUFM INTERNATIONAL$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF VA MEDICAL CENTER$30,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE$30,000
THE GUNSTON SCHOOL$25,000
THE CLIMATE INSTITUTE$25,000
KIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL$25,000
WASHINGTON COLLEGE$25,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$25,000
LINDEN HALL$25,000
CHESTER RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FAMILY YMCA$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL: $25k → 6%THE HILL SCHOOL: $25k → 7%LINDEN HALL: $28k → 9%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%WAIT UNTIL 8TH: $40k → 10%GLOBAL GIVING: $50k → 14%CROSS WORLD USAUFM INTERNATIONAL: $35k → 8%KENT SCHOOL: $50k → 9%YALE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF VA MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 8%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%THE CHURCH HILL THEATER: $55k → 7%QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 10%JOHN PAUL JONES CHAPTER MARYLAND SOCIETY: $50k → 11%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $100k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE: $80k → 19%KIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL: $25k → 6%LINDEN HALL: $25k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $30k → 17%WAIT UNTIL 8TH ORGANIZATION: $25k → 10%THE CLIMATE INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%YALE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%GLENELG COUNTRY SCHOOL: $25k → 6%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%THE CHURCH HILL THEATER: $35k → 7%QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 10%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $80k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE: $60k → 19%LINDEN HALL: $25k → 9%THE CHURCH HILL THEATER: $30k → 7%KENT SCHOOL: $61k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE: $60k → 19%LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $40k → 6%KENT SCHOOL: $50k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE: $60k → 19%LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $40k → 6%KENT SCHOOL: $50k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE: $50k → 19%KENT SCHOOL: $35k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE: $50k → 19%LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $30k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE: $30k → 19%LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $40k → 7%LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $40k → 7%LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $40k → 7%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
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
MO
VA
MD
DC
OK
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtnlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 25 repeat orgs$461k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
11

Total granted

$3.5M
$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

64%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
EducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • WC
    WASHINGTON COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $560k · revenue +21%
  • LM
    LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +103%
  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $302k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS DCMDVA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • JP
    JOHN PAUL JONES CHAPTER MARYLAND SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +17%
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
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
6
The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge

The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…

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7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
9
Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science

The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
New West Charter School

The mission of new west charter school is to provide an academically rigorous, highly individualized education for 21st century students in grades 6 - 12. in the decades to come, personal success will require increasingly high levels of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kent School; the most unlike its peers is Fair Hill Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE: $390,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINETHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $200,000 · OtherTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INCYALE UNIVERSITY: $155,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYChester River Health Foundation Inc: $135,000 · OtherChester River Health Foundation IncLINDEN HALL: $87,500 · OtherLINDEN HALLQUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $75,000 · Other+18 more: $495,000 · Other+18 moreWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $559,500 · EducationWASHINGTON COLLEGEKENT SCHOOL INC: $301,552 · EducationKENT SCHOOL INCJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYCornell University: $120,000 · EducationCornell UniversityKIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL: $105,000 · EducationKIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOLTHE HILL SCHOOL: $65,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationGlenelg Country School Inc: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $11,000 · EducationLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $330,000 · HealthLANKENAU M…CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · HealthCHARCOT-MA…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE INSTITUTE: $95,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $50,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentFair Hill Foundation Inc: $150,000 · PhilanthropyCHURCH HILL THEATRE INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · International
Other$1,537,500Education$1,462,052Health$356,000Environment$265,000Philanthropy$150,000Arts & Culture$120,000International$50,000

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

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
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 WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fair Hill Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Chester River Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH HILL THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Glenelg Country School Inc ↗
  • Who funds WAIT UNTIL 8TH ↗
  • Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OAKS MINISTRY ↗

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 Foundati…David a Bramble Found…Mid Shore Community F…The Bessemer Giving F…Bernard and Betty Har…The Salmon Foundation…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas H & Barbara W Gale Fndtn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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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