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Egan Family Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $780k
- $250k+2 grants · $968k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $468,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWPORT COUNTY | $183,000 |
| NEWTON PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| REDWOOD LIBRARY | $110,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| HOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| ST MARY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $86,500 |
| REGIS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL | $35,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON | $30,000 |
| A WISH COME TRUE | $25,000 |
| ISABELLE STEWART GARDNER MMUSEUM | $25,000 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +53% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +169%
Fairfield University6× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +84%
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +48%
Funded once
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%- MMGHone grant, 2018 · $25k
SHARE OUR STRENGTHone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -44%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
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…
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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Description of organization mission: at suffolk university we are driven by the power of education, inclusion, and engagement to change lives and positively impact communities. committed to excellence, we provide students with experiential…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woosox Foundation 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 65 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 Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds A WISH COME TRUE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SEACOAST FAMILY PROMISE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Champlin Foundation · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Bazarsky Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Charitable Trust · Hamilton Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc
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 Egan Family Charitable 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.
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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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