· Private foundation
Bally Shannon Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION FBO GENEVIEVE L MURPHY FUND | $1,861,584 |
| ADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION | $1,025,000 |
| AIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUST | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION HEARTS DELIGHT AUCTION | $35,000 |
| WHITE TRUCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH OF BOSTON | $25,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON DC | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $24,915 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF PALM BEACH | $20,000 |
| FONTBONNE ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| SOAR | $15,000 |
| FAMILY MISSIONS | $15,000 |
| MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER | $10,321 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $106k) 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 your grants land in higher-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.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- AAADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +263%
- BRBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc4× · 2018–2023 · $105k · revenue +63%
- KIKIDS IN NEED DISTRIBUTORS INC4× · 2018–2021 · $38k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- CSCATHEDRAL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $450k
- TSTHE SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF BOSTONone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
44-Bed licensed nursing home in Hyattsville, Maryland that provides nursing care services to its residents
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…
The organization is affiliated with Associated Catholic Charities, Inc. (ACC) whose mission is "Inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in…
Assisted living residence for low- and moderate-income frail elderly persons.
Christ House provides 24-hour comprehensive and compassionate care for people experiencing homelessness with acute medical needs in the District of Columbia and offers assistance in addressing critical issues to help break the cycle of…
We, holy cross health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. we carry out this mission in our communities through our commitment to be the…
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Soar. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 62 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 ADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED DISTRIBUTORS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE TRUCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Poor Roberts Mission ↗
- Who funds AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Bally Shannon Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% 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.