· Private foundation
Charles a Dailey 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERERANS MIRACLE CENTER ERIE | $45,525 |
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY | $7,431 |
| MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY | $3,373 |
| MIAMI COUNTY DAY SCHOOL | $3,373 |
| THE READ CENTER | $3,373 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $3,373 |
| MERCYHURST PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE SHRINE | $100 |
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 (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Charles a Dailey Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- CMCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE3× · 2020–2022 · $42k · revenue +59%
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY7× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +33%
- ECERIE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC2× · 2019–2020 · $27k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CICHOSEN INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- MTMOTHER THERESA ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of the erie art museum is to promote and advance the visual arts by maintaining a quality art collection, by encouraging art in all its forms, by fostering lifelong art learning, and by building community among artists, art…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Misericordia university, a catholic liberal arts institution established in the tradition of the sisters of mercy, fosters intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and respect for persons in an environment where all are welcome.values…
Erie day school is a co-educational, independent elementary school (toddler through grade 8) located in erie, pa. our educational approach values the individual talents, traits, and abilities of our students.
York college prepares graduates for fulfilling, productive, and purposeful lives by providing high quality programs of study supported by relevant real-world experiences. continued on schedule o.as a rich and diverse community of educators…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Center for Arts and Technology Inc and the most unlike its peers is Upper Room of Erie. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 50 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 CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Eries Public Schools ↗
- Who funds ERIE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds KALEIDASCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL ABOUT CHARACTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Erie United Methodist Alliance ↗
- Who funds TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds THERAPY DOGS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SERVERIE ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A ERIE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Erie Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds PERFORMA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS MIRACLE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Upper Room of Erie ↗
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: Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Merwin Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Hamot Health Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Charles a Dailey Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.