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Kavanagh Family Foundation at a glance

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Kavanagh Family 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.

$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.1MYouth Development$201kArts & Culture$181kHuman Services$166kAnimals$113kPhilanthropy$90kCivil Rights$25kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$200,000
BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE$35,000
NEW ORLEANS BALLET THEATRE$10,000
THE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE GLEASON INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 23%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

MN
NY
CO
MO
NC
LA
AL
TX
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$1.3M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+20%

Still filing today

75%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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

  • BH
    BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $130k · revenue +9%
  • YE
    YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
    4× · 2019–2023 · $105k · revenue +41%
  • SO
    SON OF A SAINT
    2× · 2020–2021 · $86k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • MA
    MD ANDERSON
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • WY
    WHAT YOU GIVE WILL GROW
    one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue -100%
  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +127%
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
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc

Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc. (d/b/a Lafitte Greenway Partnership) works to build, program, and promote the Lafitte Greenway as a great public space.

Community Improvement
2
Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering by providing care and basic medical services for homeless and unwanted animals with the mission to promote, protect, and advance the well-being of louisiana's companion animals.

Animals
3
Take Paws Rescue

The mission of take paws rescue is to meet the moral obligation to protect and save the lives of pets in need of rescue in louisiana. take paws rescue enacts this mission by pulling pets from rural and high kill shelters and preparing them…

Animals
4
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp

Who we are: southeast louisiana legal services (slls) is the largest non-profit law firm in louisiana whose mission is to achieve justice through free civil legal aid to low-income people by direct case work, advocacy, and community…

Crime & Legal
5
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Southern Adirondacks Inc

Provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

Youth Development
6
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Swla Inc

To provide children in Southwest Louisiana facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

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7
Luke's House- a Clinic for Healing and Hope

Luke's house provides medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing to greater new orleans residents, creates patient-centered experiences for students, and connects patients to long-term healthcare solutions.

Health
8
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health
9
Louisiana Spca Foundation Inc

To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals
10
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
11
University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education
12
The Arc of Louisiana

The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge House Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Doodle Dandy Rescue. 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

16 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. 16 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $625,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERMD ANDERSON: $200,000 · OtherMD ANDERSONNEW ORLEANS BALLET THEATRE: $147,500 · OtherNEW ORLEANS BALLET THEATRE+9 more: $138,334 · Other+9 moreBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $130,000 · HealthBRIDGE HOUS…MAYO CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICTHE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $166,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOU…YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $105,000 · Crime & LegalANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS INC: $50,000 · AnimalsBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $35,000 · AnimalsDOODLE DANDY RESCUE: $17,500 · AnimalsSON OF A SAINT: $86,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWHAT YOU GIVE WILL GROW: $80,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,110,834Health$190,000Philanthropy$166,000Crime & Legal$105,000Animals$102,500Youth Development$96,000Public Benefit$80,000

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 budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $166,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $130,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $105,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $86,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWHAT YOU GIVE WILL GROW: $80,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $33,334 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOODLE DANDY RESCUE: $17,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBayou Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 Greater New Orlea…Shell USA Company Fou…Goldring Family Found…Baptist Community Min…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Kavanagh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kavanagh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 23 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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