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Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 19
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$120k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementHousing & 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
FY2025still arriving13$33k0%
FY202417$39k24%
FY202318$48k33%
FY202218$49k33%
FY202119$52k58%
FY202012$42kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$205kYouth Development$23kHousing & Shelter$9kFood & Nutrition$7kEducation$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kReligion$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
TN
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMovember Foundation: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWinchester Hospital: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $10,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLazarus House Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bottom Line Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence General Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHuggins Hospital: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHaley House Inc & Affiliates: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCops for Kids With Cancer Inc: $1,015 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Servings Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLehigh University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDream Big Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHorizons for Homeless Children: $717 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPga Foundation Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTenacity Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLast Call Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGolf Fights Cancer Inc: $250 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 26.

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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.

GivenGain Foundation USAFL17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GivenGain Foundation USA · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust

How much does Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust give?
Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $32,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (78%), Youth Development (9%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
Who are Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($60k), Children's Hospital Corporation ($60k), Movember Foundation ($23k).
Does Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust 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 Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GivenGain Foundation USA, Arbella Insurance Foundation, Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust based?
Joseph and Eva Flaherty Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 39 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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