· Private foundation
Mike & Patti Hennessy Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hackensack meridian health foundation inc | $1,500,000 |
| Diocese of trenton | $70,000 |
| University of pennsylvania | $62,500 |
| The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc | $20,000 |
| Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation | $17,000 |
| The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country | $15,000 |
| University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | $12,500 |
| University of South Florida | $7,500 |
| LEP FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| Rutgers University | $5,000 |
| St joseph catholic church | $2,500 |
| Second Life Bikes | $1,000 |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Mike & Patti Hennessy Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ZTZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $33k · revenue +6%
- LFLEP Foundation for Youth Education5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +77%
- GMGREATER MERCER AREA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- BCBasser Center for BRCA at the University of Pennone grant, 2022 · $60k
- 5I50CAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +162%
- FOFORCE-FACING OUR RISK OF CANCER EMPOWERED INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +20%
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.
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.
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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'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, research, medical services and other public services.
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds LEP Foundation for Youth Education ↗
- Who funds FORCE-FACING OUR RISK OF CANCER EMPOWERED INC ↗
- Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MERCER AREA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND LIFE BIKES INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mike & Patti Hennessy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike & Patti Hennessy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc: 15% of income from government
- Rider University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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