· Private foundation
Lawrence & Megan Foley Family 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMAZIN METS FOUNDATION | $53,510 |
| CATHOLIC ACADEMICS OF BRIDGEPORT | $50,000 |
| TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $36,935 |
| COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS | $25,000 |
| JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHRIS MELLO SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| USC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS | $8,250 |
| THE ZAC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| SEMPER FI FUND | $5,000 |
| CHRISTOPHER AND DANA REEVE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC | $2,500 |
| COACHES FOR THE KIDS | $1,000 |
| FDNY FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $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 (FY18–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- TTTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +94%
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS8× · 2017–2024 · $928k · revenue +44%
- FCFAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION7× · 2017–2024 · $274k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- WSWe Stand With Christ Incone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -100%
- SMSACOHEN MILITARY FAMILY CLINICone grant, 2022 · $100k
- EAEND ALLERGIES TOGETHER INCone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue -100%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johnny Mac Tennis Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is C3 Legacy Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 74 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 THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMAZIN' METS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds We Stand With Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds END ALLERGIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Main Street Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds C3 LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIS MELLO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds READWORKSINC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Synchrony Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment 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 Lawrence & Megan Foley Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
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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