· Private foundation
Rafferty Family Private Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART 911 | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MARINE EDUCATION CEN | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HEHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 9118× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +114%
- PRPROJECT REBIRTH INC2× · 2017–2019 · $50k · revenue -100% · 50% of their budget
- AHAT HOME ON THE SOUND INC2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue -2%
Funded once
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +35%- HWHERE WE GO ATLANTA LLCone grant, 2019 · $5k
- PSPEPPER'S-A SAFE PLACEone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Homeless felines and ultimately place them in a proper living situation in the hopes of avoiding new york city regulated euthanasia.
Animal rescue and adoption services
Western Turnpike Rescue Squad provided emergency medical service to the community until December 2018. WTRS received NYS AG approval for dissolution on 11/3/20.
To rescue greyhounds
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide resources to historic cat cay, bahamas by both protecting the island from the devastation of natural and other disasters and to restore the island after such disasters have occurred.…
Rescue homeless dogs and cats and find them adopters in New York.
Rescue abandoned dogs from out of nys
The hero rescue is formed by a network of volunteers and fosters committed to saving lives of animals at risk of euthanasia, abuse, and neglect. by relocating animals from over crowded shelters to maryland for adequate veterinary care,…
Rescue, rehabilitation and adoption of domestic animals. to promote and improve the physical, mental and emotional health and well-being of rescued or surrendered domestic animals.
A small rescue group operating in the new york area that only rescues dogs from high kill shelters and southern rescues. this means a majority of dogs admitted there are euthanized due to lack of space. we very rarely take in owner…
Forever home rescue new england, inc is an all-volunteer, shelterless rescue group whose mission is to find loving forever homes for the dogs they rescue.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Westchester Inc and the most unlike its peers is The One East Sixtieth Street Historical Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911 ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REBIRTH INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bahamas Hope Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AT HOME ON THE SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ONE EAST SIXTIETH STREET HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PET RESCUE INCORPORATED ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Rafferty Family Private Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Rafferty Family Private Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Rafferty Family Private Foundation 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.