· Private foundation
Garrigan 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $790k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEACH RWANDA | $185,000 |
| MCKIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| EL SISTEMA | $95,000 |
| EDUCATE GIRLS US | $80,000 |
| PEACEPLAYERS | $80,000 |
| PILGRIM'S INN | $75,000 |
| CONCRETE COUCH | $60,000 |
| COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS | $60,000 |
| PROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY | $55,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HOUSING | $40,000 |
| FINE FEATHER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TRTEACH RWANDA4× · 2021–2024 · $525k · revenue +81% · 91% of their budget
- PIPILGRIMS INN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $185k · revenue +39%
- PNPROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY6× · 2019–2024 · $172k · revenue +462%
Funded once
- SLST LUKES UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORKone grant, 2022 · $12k
- GGREENS2TE2AMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 agency's mission states "pinebrook family answers nurtures and empowers children, adults and families by providing mental health services and community-based programs throughout the greater lehigh valley. we do this through initiatives…
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
Milestone provides quality, life-enhancing services that promote wellness and the development of human potential to people with behavioral health and intellectual challenges. each year milestone serves approximately 3,500 residents of…
Public health management corporation (phmc) is a nonprofit public health institute that creates and sustains healthier communities. phmc uses best practices to improve community health through direct service, partnership, innovation,…
Eecm changes the lives of people facing the impacts of poverty. opportunity, transformation, hope.
Strives to permanently break the cycle of poverty for philadelphia families
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
Founded by a group of passionate individuals, CGA champions the cause of economic and cultural equity within our vibrant communities. Since its inception, CGA has committed itself to fostering flourishing neighborhoods, ensuring that every…
Provide holistic and integrated service that address the diverse needs of vulnerable individuals and families experiencing instability as the result of domestic violence and /or homelessness.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
The Community Life Improvement Center CLIC is a 501c3 non-profit organization that aims to meet the basic, psychological and self-fulfillment needs of any combination of low-income persons, ethnic minorities, women and youth. Our service…
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley and the most unlike its peers is Educate Girls. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 19 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 TEACH RWANDA ↗
- Who funds PILGRIMS INN INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE GIRLS ↗
- Who funds PROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MCKIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE COUCH ↗
- Who funds Partners in Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FINE FEATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Resources for Human Development 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.
Open a dossier: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Garrigan 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.