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Delaney Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Delaney Charitable 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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.5MHealth$158kHuman Services$130kInternational$75kPublic Benefit$55kArts & Culture$46kHousing & Shelter$30kSocial Science$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$25,000
MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER$15,000
READ ALLIANCE$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$10,000
WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILD HELP: $5k → 11%CHILD HELP: $5k → 11%CHILD HELP: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 8 repeat orgs$578k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
24

Total granted

$1.5M
$493k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+18%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $700k · revenue +34%
  • NS
    NEW SCHOOLS FUND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +14%
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • VISION TO LEARNgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +250%
  • SP
    ST PATRICKS DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $33k
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
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
3
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
4
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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5
Third Way Institute

Third way institute supports charitable and educational activities that advance centrist solutions to major economic, national security, energy and social policy issues.

Civil Rights
6
The Brookings Institution

The brookings institution (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level.…

Social Science
7
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
10
Harmony Dc Public Charter Schools

The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…

Education
11
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

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12
Teachers College Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia Universitys (TC or the College) mission is to empower committed learners and leaders to build a smarter, healthier, more just and equitable world through multidisciplinary knowledge creation, policy engagement,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dancing Dreams. 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

22 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. 22 of the 37 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)
20/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $700,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYNEW SCHOOLS FUND: $200,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FUNDTeach for America Inc: $110,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc+4 more: $65,000 · Education+4 moreCONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD: $357,500 · OtherCONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $115,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESST PATRICKS DAY SCHOOL: $70,000 · OtherST PATRICKS DAY SCHOOLCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL: $32,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S RESEARCH CENTER: $30,000 · Other+15 more: $210,500 · Other+15 moreVISION TO LEARN: $100,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $15,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalKulungu Corporation: $10,000 · InternationalNELSON MANDELA CHILDREN'S FUND: $10,000 · InternationalTHE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDANCING DREAMS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Public Benefit
Education$1,075,000Other$815,500Health$110,000International$45,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Arts & Culture$30,000Public Benefit$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $700,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FUND: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKulungu Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNELSON MANDELA CHILDREN'S FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREAD ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEM HQ INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDANCING DREAMS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLANDON SCHOOL: $5,000 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Delaney Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delaney Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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