· Private foundation
Flaherty Family 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,070,244 |
| COLLEGE BOOK SCHOLARSHIPS | $110,438 |
| Individual grant recipient | $93,175 |
| Individual grant recipient | $74,756 |
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 (FY20–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- TSTRINITY SCHOOLS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $49k · revenue +12%
- WEWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS2× · 2021–2022 · $46k · revenue +19%
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $24k · revenue +240%
Funded once
- MSMT ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $94k
- EUEASTERN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $24k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $16k
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.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate…
To be a college preparatory school of academic excellence rooted in the faith, values and caring of the judeo-christian tradition.
Benedict college is committed to providing transformative learning experiences characterized by high quality academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming, intentionally designed to develop superior cultural and professional…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…
We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.
The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…
The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.
The mission of trinity academy of portland is to educate middle and high school students within a joyful christian school culture marked by the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty, and the development of…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Frontiers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alderson Hospitality House Land Tru. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
13 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. 13 of the 62 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.
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: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Kopp Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Minneapolis Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity · The Thomas B and Elizabeth M Sheridan Foundation 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 Flaherty Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.