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Callahan-Dee Family 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.

$715k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$635k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Callahan-Dee Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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 arriving17$635k29%
FY202315$548k40%
FY202213$534k100%
FY20191$621n/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$540kEnvironment$435kAnimals$215kArts & Culture$180kEducation$160kFood & Nutrition$125kCommunity Improvement$15kReligion$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Callahan-Dee Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Corps: $395,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marine Mammal Center: $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Orange Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtspace Community Arts Center: $115,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBerkshire Natural Resources Council Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArtspace Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPittsfield Community Food Pantry Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCamfed USA Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Center Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Care Solar: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Music School of Springfield Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse Ny: $6,000 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 19.

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 Endowment ProgramPA7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Callahan-Dee Family Foundation

How much does Callahan-Dee Family Foundation give?
Callahan-Dee Family Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $635,000, out of $715,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Callahan-Dee Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (11%), Environment (9%), Animals (4%).
Who are Callahan-Dee Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mercy Corps ($395k), The Marine Mammal Center ($200k), University of Orange Inc ($160k).
Does Callahan-Dee Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Callahan-Dee Family Foundation 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 Callahan-Dee Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Callahan-Dee Family Foundation based?
Callahan-Dee Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 25 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $948k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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