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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$540kEnvironment$435kAnimals$215kArts & Culture$180kEducation$160kFood & Nutrition$125kCommunity Improvement$15kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $625,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $715,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $515k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mercy Corps$125,000
Doctors Without Borders USA$120,000
Artspace Community Arts Center$65,000
University of Orange$55,000
Natural Resources Defense Council$50,000
Berkshire Natural Resources Council$50,000
Marine Mammal Center$50,000
Food Bank of Western Massachusetts$25,000
Camfed USA Foundation$15,000
Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll)$15,000
Samaritan Center$10,000
World Central Kitchen$10,000
South Community Food Pantry Inc$10,000
Trust Women Foundation Inc$10,000
We Care Solar$5,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 13 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$1.4M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-1%

Still filing today

100%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TM
    THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +2%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +29%
  • AC
    Artspace Community Arts Center
    2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +23% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

  • N
    NRDC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AI
    Artspace Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -37%
  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
3
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Mce Social Capital

To generate economic opportunities for women and families in underserved communities throughout the developing world.

Community Improvement
6
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International
9
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
10
Women's Foodservice Forum

Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.

Food & Nutrition
11
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
12
Moral Compass Federation Inc

Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mercy Corps — $395,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $120,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · International+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENS…THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVAT…BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOUR…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SO…Artspace Community Arts Center — $115,000 · OtherArtspace Community Art…THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $75,000 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTE…NRDC — $50,000 · OtherNRDCSAMARITAN CENTER INC — $25,000 · OtherSAMARITAN CENTER INCMass Audubon's Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary — $15,000 · OtherEntrepreneurship for All (EforAll) — $15,000 · OtherWE CARE SOLAR — $15,000 · Other+5 more — $26,621 · Other+5 moreTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $200,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MA…UNIVERSITY OF ORANGE INC — $160,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY…Artspace Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSFIELD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
International$550,000Environment$370,000Other$336,621Animals$200,000Community Improvement$160,000Arts & Culture$65,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SYRACUSE NY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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