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John J Creedon Foundation at a glance

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John J Creedon 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.

$5k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$26kReligion$21kHealth$18kHuman Services$12kArts & Culture$8kPublic Benefit$7kFood & Nutrition$6kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$575k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND CHANCE YOUTH GARDEN$2,000
UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER$1,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$1,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$500
UNITED STATES NAVY MEMORIAL$200
PROJECT HOPE$200
MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH$150
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$100
Individual grant recipient$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER: $1k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER: $1k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER: $1k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER: $1k → 9%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 32 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 25 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
47

Total granted

$58k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+38%

Still filing today

56%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +162%
  • ST
    SAVE THE SOUND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +93%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • NL
    NYU LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • NS
    NYU STERN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
5
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
6
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 82 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PROVIDENCE OF ST MARY: $21,000 · OtherTHE PROVIDENCE OF ST MARYNYU LAW SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherNYU LAW SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNYU STERN SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherNYU STERN SCHOOLNORTHEAST FLORIDA COMMUNITY HOSPITA: $5,000 · OtherFRENCH AMERICAN SCHOOL: $4,000 · Other+54 more: $35,235 · Other+54 moreDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthDEMENTIA …Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $4,000 · HealthDana-Farb…American Diabetes Association: $1,000 · HealthAmerican …PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $800 · HealthPARKINSON…+3 more: $300 · HealthUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $4,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDINC: $1,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $5,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $300 · InternationalJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,200 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $500 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $500 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $400 · Public BenefitCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $300 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $300 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDATION: $200 · Public BenefitSAVE THE SOUND: $3,000 · Environment
Other$95,235Health$11,100Human Services$6,500Arts & Culture$5,500International$5,300Public Benefit$3,900Environment$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOANNE AND JOHN CARTER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARCHMONT MANOR PARK SOCIETY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETA GAMMA SIGMA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds DEMENTIA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM ↗
  • Who funds JOANNE AND JOHN CARTER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON GUILDINC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Citizens United Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Farrell Family Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Farrell Family FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farrell Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John J Creedon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John J Creedon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 82 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $68k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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