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Dolan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$22MEducation$17MScience & Tech$3.1MInternational$1.3MArts & Culture$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.2MReligion$1.1MYouth Development$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 19 grants below total $742,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,137,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $395,000 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 $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $570k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RISING STARS INC$200,000
OMNI- LOVE FOR THE LEAST$100,000
ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION$100,000
HAITI HAS: HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER HAITI$60,000
VETSAID INC$60,000
THE LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER AT OYSTER BAY$50,000
WOMEN IN NEED INC [WIN]$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$25,000
CENTER FOR MARINE EDUCATION & RECREATION AT OYSTER BAY, INC$25,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY$20,000
THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART$15,000
FLORIDA STATE UNIV SCH FOUNDATION$10,000
BABY2BABY FOUNDATION$10,000
ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION$10,000
58:7 MINISTRIES$10,000
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$37M · 27 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
98

Total granted

$37M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+18%

Still filing today

56%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $8.5M · revenue +1%
  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $3.0M · revenue +10%
  • EW
    EAST WOODS SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • HA
    Haiti Air & Ambulance Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
  • SL
    St Lawrence University
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
  • HA
    HAITI AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue +43%

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
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
6
Long Island Partnership Clt Housing Development Fund Company Inc

Long island partnership clt housing development fund company, inc. (lipclt) was established to provide housing within nassau and suffolk counties in new york for "persons of low income", as defined in any federal or state low income…

Housing & Shelter
7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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12
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Defense and the most unlike its peers is Haiti Air Ambulance Service 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsDomestic Violence and Sexua…Veteran Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterCollege Foundation SupportCommunity Hospital SystemsFood Pantries and AssistanceYouth Development CentersProfessional Dance CompaniesAffordable Housing Developm…Developmental Disabilities …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Jewish Community FederationsLocal History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & RescueAddiction & Mental Health T…Private Grantmaking Foundat…Environmental Advocacy and …Charter and Independent Sch…Christian Outreach Ministri…Childhood Cancer SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%68%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/82
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,678

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.

03the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 139 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/77
Grantees still filing
59/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Haiti Air and Ambulance Service — $11,000,000 · OtherHaiti Air and Ambulance ServiceHAITI AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE, INC. — $5,800,000 · OtherHAITI AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE, INC.Haiti Air & Ambulance Inc — $2,000,000 · OtherHaiti Air & Ambulance IncSt Lawrence University — $2,000,000 · OtherSt Lawrence UniversityCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM — $1,515,000 · Other+88 more — $7,251,000 · Other+88 moreST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $8,500,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYEAST WOODS SCHOOL INC — $2,690,000 · EducationEAST WOODS SCHOOL INCCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $1,000,000 · EducationCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND I…STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC+10 more — $267,500 · EducationHAITI AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE INC — $2,000,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMSG RELIEF FUND CO MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ENTERTAINMENT CORP — $1,025,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $3,000,000 · Science & TechTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT — $750,000 · Arts & CultureOYSTER BAY RAILROAD MUSEUM — $125,000 · Arts & CultureWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCRAVE STUDENT ARTS INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENT — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $93,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC — $50,000 · Human Services+5 more — $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyTAO CARES RELIEF FUND — $250,000 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK FOUNDATION — $110,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · PhilanthropyVETSAID INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyGRANT FUHR FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Philanthropy
Other$29,566,000Education$13,207,500Public Safety & Disaster$3,025,000Science & Tech$3,000,000Arts & Culture$1,418,000Human Services$1,195,000Philanthropy$910,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $8,500,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEAST WOODS SCHOOL INC — $2,690,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetMSG RELIEF FUND CO MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ENTERTAINMENT CORP — $1,025,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetRISING STARS INC — $850,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT — $750,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC — $300,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTAO CARES RELIEF FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetINNOVATING HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC — $150,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMissionary Support Services Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPORTLEDGE SCHOOL — $110,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVIN BAKER BOUNCING BACK FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY — $70,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETSAID INC — $60,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Drop Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNever Broken Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetLITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLOVE OF LEARNING MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $42,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetGRANT FUHR FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OYSTER BAY - EAST NORWICH — $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON FINE ARTS INSTITUTE LTD — $30,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe George Washington University — $25,000 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.

The Bahnik Foundation…William J and Dorothy…The New York Communit…Frederic R Coudert Fo…Mother Cabrini Health…Pledgeling FoundationMutual of America Fou…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
The Bahnik Foundation IncNY22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bahnik Foundation Inc · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Frederic R Coudert Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Dolan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dolan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 139 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.

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