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Driscoll Family Foundation at a glance

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Driscoll 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.

$479k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$795kSocial Science$349kInternational$285kArts & Culture$243kFood & Nutrition$180kHuman Services$150kPublic Benefit$115kHealth$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $384k
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER$150,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$109,400
BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY$75,000
DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION$50,000
UTAH FILM CENTER IMPACT PARTNERS$35,000
ALLIANCE TO END HUNGER$30,000
THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$10,000
THE NEW PRESS INC$10,000
THE PROGRESSIVE CHANGE INSTITUTE$5,000
JDRF INTERNATIONAL$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 (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%WE THE VETERANS FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 8 repeat orgs$495k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$1.7M
$390k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+31%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationPublic BenefitHealthFood & 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

  • CI
    CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA
    3× · 2020–2023 · $325k · revenue +89%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $209k · revenue +134%
  • AT
    Alliance to End Hunger
    5× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • WT
    We the Veterans Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +439%
  • TC
    TRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -71%
  • UO
    US OF CARE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
2
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
3
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
4
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
5
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
6
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
10
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

18 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. 18 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $325,000 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICABUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $285,000 · InternationalBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONA…HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $350,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLUS OF CARE: $50,000 · OtherUS OF CAREJOHN HOPKINS MEDICINE: $50,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS MEDICINETHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATIONTRUMAN INSTITUTE: $40,000 · OtherTRUMAN INSTITUTEUTAH FILM CENTER IMPACT PARTNERS: $35,000 · OtherTRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $60,000 · OtherTRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICYDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATIONTD JAKES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $25,000 · OtherTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC: $210,000 · EducationTESSERACT R…GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EducationTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $209,400 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN …Alliance to End Hunger: $180,000 · Food & NutritionAlliance …UTAH FILM CENTER: $118,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW PRESS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWe the Veterans Foundation: $100,000 · Human Services
International$610,000Other$730,000Education$220,000Social Science$209,400Food & Nutrition$180,000Arts & Culture$163,000Human Services$100,000

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 budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $325,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $285,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC: $210,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $209,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance to End Hunger: $180,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $118,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWe the Veterans Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $60,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSundance Institute: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTD JAKES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE QUELL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $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.

Boston Foundation IncJewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…New Venture FundThe San Francisco Fou…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Boston Foundation IncMA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · New Venture Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Driscoll Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Driscoll 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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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