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Ahearn Family Foundation at a glance

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Ahearn Family Foundation

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MEducation$835kHealth$550kYouth Development$325kCommunity Improvement$250kReligion$200kArts & Culture$100kPhilanthropy$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $690k
  • $250k+3 grants · $800k
$200,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND$300,000
GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION$250,000
CANCER HOPE NETWORK$250,000
ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH$200,000
CAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION$200,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$100,000
VISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY$100,000
COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE$90,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%A NEW LEAF: $5k → 11%BABSON COLLEGE: $250k → 7%GORDON COLLEGE: $100k → 10%WALKER ART CENTER: $100k → 11%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $100k → 7%HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%ROW NEW YORK INC: $100k → 17%COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE: $90k → 14%ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $80k → 17%GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION: $250k → 9%ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH: $200k → 7%YOUTH GUIDANCE: $325k → 14%CANCER HOPE NETWORK: $250k → 4%A NEW LEAF: $5k → 11%ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND: $300k → 7%ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $80k → 17%GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION: $250k → 9%WELLNESS HOUSE: $250 → 7%A NEW LEAF: $5k → 11%GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION: $250k → 9%CAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION: $200k → 11%GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION: $250k → 9%PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $250k → 11%VISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY: $100k → 11%CHRISTEN LIBERTY CENTER: $200 → 11%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
DC
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 3 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+45%

Still filing today

67%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureSocial ScienceOther
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

  • GP
    George Pocock Rowing Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
  • SI
    ST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL OF CLEVELAND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $160k
  • AN
    A NEW LEAF
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • YG
    Youth Guidancegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $325k · revenue +54%
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -10%
  • PC
    PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +22%
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
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
2
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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3
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
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
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
7
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
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
11
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
12
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is Community Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative. 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

16 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. 16 of the 19 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Guidance: $325,000 · EducationYouth GuidanceBABSON COLLEGE: $250,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATIONVISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC: $100,000 · EducationVISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INCGORDON COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationGORDON COLLEGE+1 more: $25,000 · EducationGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation: $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsGeorge Pocock Rowing FoundationROW NEW YORK INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsROW NEW YORK INCALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDAT…CANCER HOPE NETWORK: $250,000 · OtherCANCER HOPE NETWORKST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH: $200,000 · OtherST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCHST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL OF CLEVELAND: $160,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL OF C…+1 more: $200 · OtherWALKER ART CENTER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative: $90,000 · Social ScienceA NEW LEAF: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · Health
Education$1,250,000Recreation & Sports$1,100,000Other$910,200Arts & Culture$100,000Philanthropy$100,000Social Science$90,000Health$15,250

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 budgetGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation: $1,000,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetYouth Guidance: $325,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER HOPE NETWORK: $250,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetVISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROW NEW YORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative: $90,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellness House: $250 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ahearn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ahearn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Gordon College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
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.

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 19 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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