· Private foundation
G L Connolly Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k48 grants · $201k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $291k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Carmel of Jesus Mary and Joseph | $30,000 |
| St Josephs College | $25,000 |
| Buckley Institute Yale | $25,000 |
| Wyoming Catholic College | $22,000 |
| Keep the Faith | $15,000 |
| Ministry of Caring | $15,000 |
| United Way of Central Maryland | $15,000 |
| Thomas Aquinas College | $15,000 |
| Kolbe Academy | $12,900 |
| Lakes Environmental Association | $12,000 |
| Little Sisters of the Poor | $12,000 |
| Little Sisters of the Poor Qn Peace | $12,000 |
| Cristo Rey Network | $10,000 |
| Calvary Hospital | $10,000 |
| Maine Policy Institute | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +39% since the first grant, against -38% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- TOTrustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +3%
- WCWyoming Catholic College4× · 2020–2024 · $89k · revenue +56%
- TMTHE MAINE HERITAGE POLICY CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- SCSt Catherine of Sienna Churchone grant, 2020 · $10k
- KAKolby Academy and Trinity Prepone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $9k
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 institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The institute of catholic culture is an adult catechetical organization, faithful to the magisterium of the catholic church. the institute seeks to fulfill its mission by offering educational programs structured upon the classical liberal…
The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…
An education with a rigorous classical curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic faith.
See schedule o.education of the heart: cabrini university was a catholic institution of higher education. the cabrini legacy corporation exists to protect the legacy of the former university.cabrini university was a catholic institution of…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 84 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 Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds THE MAINE HERITAGE POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEEP THE FAITH INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Kolbe Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Immigration Studies Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
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 Moran Foundation · Louise M Davies Foundation · Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Donors Trust Inc · William J Cammack Foundation Co William D Cammack · The Amaturo Family Foundation · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · John P & Ann Marie Martin Charitable Trust · David S Cammack Foundation · Sacred Heart Trust Foundation · Mary's Foundation
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 G L Connolly 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.
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Ave Maria University 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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