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Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc

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.

$96k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
65%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$924k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
InternationalEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$96k20%
FY202317$163k65%
FY202215$150k87%
FY202010$22kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$190kEducation$66kArts & Culture$55kReligion$41kCrime & Legal$27kYouth Development$8kInternational$5kHealth$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alliance to End Hunger$60,00031%
Bread for the World Institute$55,00020%
National Center on Sexual Exploitation$50,00011%
Bread For The World Inc$50,00011%
Gregorian University Foundation Inc$20,0002n/a
Loyola School$20,0002n/a
Most Holy Trinity Church$16,0002n/a
Georgetown University$15,00030%
Thomas Aquinas College$7,50020%
Americares Foundation Inc$4,50020%
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All grantees of Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alliance to End Hunger$60,00031%
Bread for the World Institute$55,00020%
National Center on Sexual Exploitation$50,00011%
Bread For The World Inc$50,00011%
Gregorian University Foundation Inc$20,0002n/a
Loyola School$20,0002n/a
Most Holy Trinity Church$16,0002n/a
Georgetown University$15,00030%
Thomas Aquinas College$7,50020%
Americares Foundation Inc$4,50020%
East Hampton Healthcare Foundation$4,50030%
The Global FoodBanking Network$4,50020%
Woodlawn Conservancy Inc$4,00010%
Church of St Ignatius Loyola$2,0001n/a
Scan-Harbor Inc$2,00010%
Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc$1,00010%
Students for Life of America Inc$1,00010%
Good Counsel Inc$1,00010%
George Jackson Academy$50010%
Christian Herald Association Inc$50010%
Society for the Relief of Women and Children$40010%
Marymount Manhattan College$25010%
Fund for Park Avenue New York Inc$10010%
The Doe Fund Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlliance to End Hunger: $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNational Center on Sexual Exploitation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBread For The World Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGeorgetown University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Aquinas College: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast Hampton Healthcare Foundation: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodlawn Conservancy Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetScan-Harbor Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Counsel Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Jackson Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for the Relief of Women and Children: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarymount Manhattan College: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFund for Park Avenue New York Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc

How much does Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc give?
Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $95,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (44%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Alliance to End Hunger ($60k), Bread for the World Institute ($55k), National Center on Sexual Exploitation ($50k).
Does Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc based?
Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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