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Connelly 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.
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 $10k52 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $161,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $46,000 |
| GARDEN CONSERVANCY | $39,000 |
| ECOLOGY CENTER | $34,863 |
| AUGIE'S QUEST | $34,740 |
| FRICK COLLECTION | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA | $17,100 |
| VARIOUS | $11,808 |
| THE SHED | $11,217 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| BALLET SUN VALLEY | $10,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 12 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2025 · $379k · revenue +237%
- ECECOLOGY CENTER5× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +126%
- AQAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $109k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- LPLA Philharmonic Assocone grant, 2018 · $24k
- SSVSEFone grant, 2018 · $19k
- TUTrout Unlimitedone grant, 2018 · $17k
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National League of Young Men Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 133 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 HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET SUN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HARMON KILLEBREW-DANNY THOMPSON MEMORIAL CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Oneroot Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Curci Fund · Croul Family Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Edmund and Mary Shea Family Foundation · The Beall Family Foundation · The Kling Family Foundation · Tarsadia Foundation · The Confidence 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 Connelly Family 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.
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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