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Edward J Daly Foundation at a glance

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Edward J Daly Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$194k
Granted FY2021
18
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2021.

Philanthropy$200kHealth$100kEducation$88kFood & Nutrition$80kHuman Services$72kArts & Culture$41kEnvironment$15kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k11 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$25,000
CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL$20,000
OAKLAND AVIATION MUSEUM$20,000
HOLY NAMES HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
SAINT VINCENT'S DAY HOME$15,000
HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME OF SAN FRANCISCO$10,000
PROJECT LOVE AND CARE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SAINT JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
PACIFIC BOYCHOIR ACADEMY$3,500
SAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL$3,000
REDWOOD DAY SCHOOL$2,500
SEMPERVIRENS FUND$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$413k · 18 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against -32% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
1

Total granted

$413k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
-32%

Still filing today

56%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
EnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • GR
    GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +74%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +39%
  • OA
    OAKLAND AVIATION MUSEUM
    2× · 2020–2021 · $41k · revenue +201% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • OL
    OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -32%
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
Park Day School Corporation

To provide education to 338 students in elementary and middle school.

Education
2
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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3
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
4
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
5
Redwood Cooperative School

Education Preschool Through Eight Grade

Education
6
St Paul's Day School of Oakland Dba St Paul's Episcopal School

St. paul's prepares students to be confident and skilled learners, cultivates in them a strong sense of purpose, and inspires them to be generous and active citizens of the world.

—
7
Mark Day School

Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.

—
8
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
9
Bentley School

Bentley school is a coeducational day school, grades k-12. the mission of the school is to inspire inquiry, academic excellence, personal achievement, and character by engaging students' intellect and creativity, and by encouraging them to…

—
10
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

—
11
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Redwood Day School; the most unlike its peers is Oakland Aviation Museum. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $80,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKOAKLAND AVIATION MUSEUM: $41,275 · OtherOAKLAND AVIATION MUSEUMCORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherCORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOLST VINCENTS DAY HOME: $30,000 · OtherST VINCENTS DAY HOMEHOLY NAMES HIGH SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherHOLY NAMES HIGH SCHOOLSAINT JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherPROJECT LOVE AND CARE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $31,250 · Other+6 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS IN…GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthGLAUCOMA RESEARCH …HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $20,000 · Human ServicesSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $5,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $5,000 · EnvironmentPacific Boychoir Academy: $7,000 · Arts & CultureREDWOOD DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education
Other$272,525Philanthropy$200,000Health$100,000Human Services$20,000Environment$10,000Arts & Culture$7,000Education$5,000

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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOAKLAND AVIATION MUSEUM: $41,275 over 2y, 35% of budgetST VINCENTS DAY HOME: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Boychoir Academy: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSaint Paul School: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $1,250 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.

American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Edward J Daly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward J Daly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 20 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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