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Damian P & Marie McCarthy Alagia Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Damian P & Marie McCarthy Alagia Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2018
15
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Damian P & Marie McCarthy Alagia Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Louisville Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Damian P & Marie McCarthy Alagia Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $38k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

12
’17
11
’18
0
’19
0
’22
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$180kEducation$60kArts & Culture$12kHealth$1kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2018 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k13 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$647k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION$12,275
GEORGETOWN LAW CENTER$10,485
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$3,000
SACRED HEART ACADEMY$2,000
55000 DEGREES$1,000
THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER$1,000
STONE RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART$1,000
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$1,000
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA$1,000
GONZAGA HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$1,000
WASHINGTON COLLEGE$1,000
RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE$500
TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $3k → 14%CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $1k → 14%RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE: $500 → 5%STONE RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART: $1k → 8%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $2k → 12%LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY: $1k → 14%GILDAS CLUB LOUISVILLE: $1k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $2k → 14%CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $1k → 14%RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE: $500 → 5%STONE RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART: $1k → 8%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $1k → 12%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE: $100k → 15%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE: $40k → 15%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE: $40k → 15%WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $500 → 14%55000 DEGREES: $1k → 15%GEORGETOWN LAW CENTER: $10k → 14%55000 DEGREES: $1k → 15%GONZAGA HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 14%SACRED HEART ACADEMY: $6k → 15%THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER: $1k → 14%SACRED HEART ACADEMY: $2k → 15%GONZAGA HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 14%JAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION: $12k → 15%CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 15%CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 15%TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $500 → 15%TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $500 → 15%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION: $18k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31k · 11 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$31k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+32%

Still filing today

55%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +81%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +21%
  • CE
    CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -9%
  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +32%
  • WJ
    WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $500
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
St Mary's University

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.

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4
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
5
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
6
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
7
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
8
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Education
12
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is James Graham Brown Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INCJAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC: $12,275 · OtherJAMES GRAHAM BROW…GEORGETOWN LAW CENTER: $10,485 · OtherGEORGETOWN LAW CE…SACRED HEART SCHOOLS INC: $7,500 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHO…GONZAGA HIGH SCHOOL: $2,500 · OtherGONZAGA HIGH SCHO…55000 DEGREES: $2,000 · OtherCOUNTRY DAY SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART INC: $2,000 · Other+4 more: $3,500 · Other+4 moreUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationWASHINGTON COL…CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · EducationCATHOLIC EDUCA…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNI…THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $2,000 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC U…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$180,000Other$40,260Education$33,500Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Paradis Foundation IncKindred Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…
Paradis Foundation IncKY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paradis Foundation Inc · Kindred Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Damian P & Marie McCarthy Alagia Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Damian P & Marie McCarthy Alagia Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 19 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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