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Driscoll Family Foundation at a glance

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Driscoll Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$561k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$548kEducation$48kHealth$41kHuman Services$20kEnvironment$15kFood & Nutrition$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k8 grants · $15k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $546k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE$225,000
JP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$199,351
JP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$121,200
WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL$5,000
NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER$5,000
FRIENDS OF WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE$1,500
OUR MOTHER OF CONSOLATION PARISH$1,003
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION$1,000
QUOGUE LIBRARY$1,000
POMONA COLLEGE$500
Individual grant recipient$250
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $1k → 14%EAST END HOSPICE: $500 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $500 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $500 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $100 → 7%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
MA
OR
WY
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$117k · 24 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
33

Total granted

$117k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+66%

Still filing today

71%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +61%
  • WP
    WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +13%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • HF
    Heal Food Alliance
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
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
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
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
11
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
12
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Earth; the most unlike its peers is Quogue Chamber Music 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

40 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. 40 of the 61 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
33/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $320,551 · OtherJP MORGAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDOUR MOTHER OF CONSOLATION: $20,000 · Other+31 more: $48,780 · Other+31 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $225,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+2 more: $5,049 · PhilanthropyWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $14,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4,750 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $1,750 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthCANCER COMMONS: $4,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $3,000 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthGLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $1,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $1,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $1,000 · Environment+2 more: $500 · EnvironmentEast End Hospice Inc: $2,600 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$389,331Philanthropy$230,049Education$39,000Health$33,500Environment$8,500Human Services$3,600Food & Nutrition$2,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER COMMONS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEOHAZARDS INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe South Bronx Educational Foundation Inc: $2,350 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATH HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThis is My Brave Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF THE REDEEMER: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTHAMPTON BEACH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $240 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Driscoll Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Driscoll Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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 61 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home