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Ernest E Mahoney Trust

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Philanthropy$96kEducation$13kEnvironment$1k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$96,227
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAHONEY TRUST FUND$96,227
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%MAHONEY TRUST FUND: $96k → 11%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 field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 14 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAHONEY TRUST FUND: $96,227 · OtherMAHONEY TRUST FUND+8 more: $9,200 · Other+8 moreNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1,350 · EducationUnity Environmental University: $1,050 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $900 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $900 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $900 · Education
Other$105,427Education$5,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnity Environmental University: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $900 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.

  • Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Unity Environmental University ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ernest E Mahoney Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernest E Mahoney Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 14 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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