· Private foundation
Joseph M Fahey and Mary Elizabeth Rogers Fahey 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of JOSEPH M FAHEY AND MARY ELIZABETH ROGERS FAHEY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST TERESA'S ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| FARMAN SPRITUSLITY CENTER | $12,500 |
| JOURNEY TO NEW LIFE | $10,000 |
| CRISTO REY | $10,000 |
| DON BOSCO CENTER | $10,000 |
| DSI | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| AVILA UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST TERESE LITTLE FLOWER CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE | $2,500 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| STEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- AUAVILA UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +72%
- TDTHE DON BOSCO CENTERS8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +14%
- BFBRIGHT FUTURES FUND5× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +627%
Funded once
- SEST ELIZABETH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NHNEW HORIZON RANCH INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -5%
- SPSt Peter's Parishone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
Dsnwk is committed to providing quality community-based services and support to adults and children with developmental disabilites from northwest kansas, regardless of the level of their disabilites.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
To support persons with disabilities in achieving their fullest potential by providing housing and support services.
Empowering children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to achieve their individual potential.
Partnering for safe and healthy communities.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
The mission of judevine center for autism is to make a real difference in the quality of life for children and adults with autism and their families, wherever they may live.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donnelly College and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 53 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 AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES FUND ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Journey to New Life INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds FALLING FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jerusalem Farm ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · McCullough Family Foundation · Greater Horizons · The McGee Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Servant 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 Joseph M Fahey and Mary Elizabeth Rogers Fahey Foundation Inc 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.
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