· Private foundation
John and Elizabeth Kerrigan Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Basic Fund | $20,000 |
| Catholic Community - Stanford | $20,000 |
| New Camaldoli Hermitage | $10,874 |
| Boston College | $10,000 |
| Marist Brothers | $10,000 |
| Golden Hearts | $5,000 |
| Figureskating in Harlem | $5,000 |
| Macalester College | $5,000 |
| Sacred Heart Schools | $4,750 |
| LEMO Foundation | $3,000 |
| Ambition Angels | $3,000 |
| Street Code Academy | $3,000 |
| LifeMoves | $2,000 |
| Peter's Place | $2,000 |
| Team Esface Community Fund | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BASIC FUND7× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +82%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +70%- FSFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC4× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- JSJesuit School of Theologyone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CCCOMMUNITY CANCER FUNDone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -2%
- CJCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE BASIC FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds AMBITION ANGELS ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds STREETCODE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds THE NAPA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DYF ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Elizabeth Kerrigan Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Elizabeth Kerrigan Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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