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Michael & Robin Lally Foundation Corp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$247k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$472kInternational$167kFood & Nutrition$101kAnimals$79kPublic Benefit$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kHealth$50kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
$4,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$338k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$26,258
Raising Relief Foundation$25,000
Maxine Irene Simeone Trust$20,000
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay$20,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters Erie Nia$15,000
Virginia Commonwealth University$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Glenn H Curtiss Museum$5,000
North Carolina A&T State University$5,000
New York University$5,000
Greater Than Tech$5,000
Harvey Mudd College$5,000
Mississippi State University$5,000
UC Foundation$5,000
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 (FY22–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARC CENTER FOR DISABILITIES: $20k → 12%SAYVA INC: $500 → 6%Fort Mill Care Center: $500 → 8%Fort Mill Care Center: $250 → 8%Raising Relief Foundation: $25k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$830k · 33 repeat orgs$508k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
48

Total granted

$830k
$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+7%

Still filing today

36%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NY
    New York University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +30%
  • HM
    Harvey Mudd College
    3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +7%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • PC
    PASCO COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISIONERS
    one grant, 2023 · $29k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
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
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
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
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Disability Fitness Foundation. 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

31 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. 31 of the 95 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
17/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH FOOD BANK: $100,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $91,380 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJOHNS PASS RESCUE: $52,120 · OtherJOHNS PASS RESCUEFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $33,424 · Other+66 more: $585,505 · Other+66 morePASTURE VALLEY CHILDREN MISSIONS: $149,865 · InternationalPASTURE VALLE…Best Buddies International Inc: $15,000 · InternationalBest Buddies …+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalNew York University: $40,370 · EducationNew York U…Harvey Mudd College: $23,235 · EducationHarvey Mud…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,004 · EducationUNIVERSITY…Fordham University: $15,000 · EducationFordham Un…FAMILY EQUALITY: $10,000 · EducationFAMILY EQU…Marquette University: $5,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · EducationRAISING RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesPARC INC: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS TAMPA BAY FLORIDA INC: $22,500 · AnimalsCHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION: $2,500 · AnimalsCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Health2 GRATEFUL HEARTS CORPORATION: $2,500 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,500 · HealthBE-A-FRIEND PROGRAM INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER THAN TECH: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$927,429International$167,365Education$126,109Human Services$82,500Animals$25,000Health$25,000Youth Development$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPASTURE VALLEY CHILDREN MISSIONS: $149,865 over 4y, 27% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAISING RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetNew York University: $40,370 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $23,235 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $22,968 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS TAMPA BAY FLORIDA INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,004 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBE-A-FRIEND PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGeorgetown Heritage: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER THAN TECH: $7,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $7,425 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMarquette University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget2 GRATEFUL HEARTS CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER HEALTHCARE FOR AFRICA: $2,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Mill Care Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCitizens Association of Georgetown: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 PASTURE VALLEY CHILDREN MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds RAISING RELIEF FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS TAMPA BAY FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARC INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds BE-A-FRIEND PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Georgetown Heritage ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Michael & Robin Lally Foundation Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael & Robin Lally Foundation Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Parc Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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.
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How do I get to Michael & Robin Lally Foundation Corp?

Find your warmest path to Michael & Robin Lally Foundation Corp 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 95 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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