· Private foundation
Paul J Straley & Marjorie I Straley Charitable Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rachel Carson Council Inc | $2,000 |
| Joshua Group | $2,000 |
| Dauphin County CASA Inc | $1,500 |
| Maryland Food Bank | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 Paul J Straley & Marjorie I Straley Charitable Foundation’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 +130% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFANIMAL FRIENDS OF PORT ARANSAS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue -12%
- RCRachel Carson Council Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +392%
- DCDAUPHIN COUNTY CASA3× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- OMOPERATION MEDICALone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +16%
- SMSAINT MARGARET MARY CHURCH & SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $7k
- 3350ORGone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -37%
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.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).
To provide sustainable, equitable and effecient health care services to the most vulnerable individuals and communities around the world.
The rostropovich-vishnevskaya foundation (rvf) is a global development organization that promotes the health and wellbeing of children in need through partnerships that create sustainable, transformational public health programs around the…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
Medical missions in latin america (note: missions have been suspended until 2025 because of covid restrictions in various countries served.)
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 ANIMAL FRIENDS OF PORT ARANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Rachel Carson Council Inc ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul J Straley & Marjorie I Straley Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul J Straley & Marjorie I Straley Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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