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Margaret Patricia Eagan Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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Margaret Patricia Eagan Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$133k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$677kHealth$18kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $72k
$8,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$41,000
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA$17,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$14,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$8,000
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$8,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$8,000
YAVAPAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE$8,000
FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER$6,000
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY$6,000
NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$5,000
CHAMPAIN COLLEGE$4,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YAVAPAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 14%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%DESALES UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON: $30k → 13%FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER: $15k → 6%VASSAR COLLEGE: $5k → 9%FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER: $8k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $17k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $15k → 14%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $41k → 11%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 7%NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 7%FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $5k → 19%COLBY-SAWYER COLLEGE: $11k → 7%FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $8k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 10%GORDON COLLEGE: $20k → 10%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%DESALES UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER: $6k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $15k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $22k → 11%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $6k → 7%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $8k → 9%PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 10%GORDON COLLEGE: $5k → 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $5k → 16%FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $8k → 14%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $21k → 11%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO: $5k → 14%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $20k → 11%SOUTHERN CONN STATE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $20k → 11%SOUTHERN CONN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $8k → 11%SOUTHERN CONN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%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

ME
VT
NH
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$653k · 33 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
12

Total granted

$653k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+10%

Still filing today

58%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

  • TU
    The University of Tampa Incorporated
    5× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +77%
  • UO
    University of Scranton
    2× · 2022–2023 · $33k · revenue +15%
  • ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • FU
    FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • FP
    Franklin Pierce Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
Lehigh University

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…

Education
3
Wake Forest University

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…

Education
4
Dickinson College

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

Education
5
Bentley University

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…

Education
6
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
7
Fairleigh Dickinson University

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…

Education
8
Georgian Court University

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.

Education
9
Marquette University

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.

Education
10
Drexel University

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…

Education
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
Monmouth University Inc

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,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $130,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTSOUTHERN CONN STATE UNIVERSITY: $41,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CONN STATE UNIVERSITYFORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER: $33,500 · OtherFORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTERCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $26,500 · OtherCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITYFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $20,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGE: $19,500 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $18,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $15,500 · OtherTHREE RIVERS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15,000 · Other+15 more: $86,500 · Other+15 moreThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $43,000 · EducationThe University of Tampa IncorporatedUniversity of Scranton: $32,500 · EducationUniversity of ScrantonGORDON COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationGORDON COLLEGEROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $23,500 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYUniversity of Miami: $21,500 · EducationUniversity of MiamiWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $17,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEDESALES UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · EducationASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · Education+13 more: $48,500 · Education+13 more
Other$442,500Education$260,000

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 budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $43,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $21,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $18,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Pierce University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Folds of Honor Founda…Tulsa Community Found…Verizon FoundationDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Folds of Honor FoundationOK13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Margaret Patricia Eagan Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Patricia Eagan Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’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 →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Margaret Patricia Eagan Charitable Foundation Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 49 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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