· Private foundation
Margaret Patricia Eagan Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $41,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA | $17,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $14,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $8,000 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| YAVAPAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER | $6,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $5,000 |
| CHAMPAIN COLLEGE | $4,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of your 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 +24% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
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
- TUThe University of Tampa Incorporated5× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +77%
- UOUniversity of Scranton2× · 2022–2023 · $33k · revenue +15%
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FUFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLEone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
- FPFranklin Pierce Universitygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +40%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 72 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) — 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 49 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 University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds Franklin Pierce University ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Margaret Patricia Eagan Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Simmons University — 0% of income from government
- Western New England University — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Gordon College — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Endicott College — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% 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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