· Private foundation
Edward L & Ruth S Hennessy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $43,333 |
| ADOPT A FAMILY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC | $30,000 |
| FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE | $5,000 |
| KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| NEW VERNON FIRST AID SQUAD | $1,000 |
| DOUGLASS COLLEGE | $1 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -33% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TSTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND6× · 2018–2024 · $161k · revenue +71%
OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC4× · 2018–2024 · $118k · revenue +112%- AOAdopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $106k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD'S ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $10k
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The institute is dedicated to the study, diagnosis and treatment of family relationship problems
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds Adopt a Family Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE MORRIS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds DURGA TREE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc ↗
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.
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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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Edward L & Ruth S Hennessy Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Morris Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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