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Riley Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$5.0MEducation$3.1MHuman Services$2.9MArts & Culture$1.0MHousing & Shelter$375kPhilanthropy$25kHealth$3k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $122k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.5M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$109M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$1,426,764
Individual grant recipient$1,238,300
Individual grant recipient$800,000
ST JOHN'S HOSPICE$122,000
ST AGNES DAY ROOM$37,287
AMIGOS DE JESUS$32,000
ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR$25,000
DOLAN FAMILY FOUNDATION$25,000
GOOD COUNSEL$25,000
MOTHER OF MERCY HOUSE$16,800
ST MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION$12,000
ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH$7,200
DIVINE PROVIDENCE VILLAGE$2,500
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 (FY18–24, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $40k → 7%GOOD COUNSEL: $25k → 14%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $37k → 7%GOOD COUNSEL: $25k → 14%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $32k → 7%GOOD COUNSEL: $25k → 14%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $32k → 7%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $32k → 7%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $12k → 7%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $12k → 7%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Riley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Riley Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 16 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$9.9M
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+39%

Still filing today

56%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • CS
    Catholic Social Services
    5× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +47%
  • Amigos de Jesus
    7× · 2018–2024 · $197k · revenue +42%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2021 · $103k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $114k
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITIES OF DON GUANELLA DP
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • WO
    WOMEN OF HOPE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Saint Joseph's Foundation
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2
Dolan Family Charities
Philanthropy
3
Servants of Mary
Religion
4
The Sacred Heart of Mary Church Fdn
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5
Catholic Scholars of De
Unclassified
6
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
7
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church
Religion
8
Catholic Community Services

Community Umbrella Agency (CUA) within Phila. DHS child welfare network. Case management, prevention services and community support network to strengthen struggling families and safeguard at- risk children in their own homes and…

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9
Catholic Education Foundation
Education
10
Saint Francis Ministries
Religion
11
The Glen at St Joseph
Philanthropy
12
Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mother of Mercy House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dolan Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 34 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,563,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCatholic Social Services: $2,020,764 · OtherCatholic Social ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $1,710,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR: $1,216,500 · OtherACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMURSaint John's Hospice: $375,100 · OtherST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH: $305,200 · Other+20 more: $636,634 · Other+20 moreTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $2,090,500 · ReligionTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF G…LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000,000 · ReligionLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT I…+1 more: $39,200 · ReligionAmigos de Jesus: $196,500 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNSEL INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $103,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $20,000 · EducationLA SALLE ACADEMY: $6,341 · Education
Other$8,827,748Religion$3,129,700Human Services$271,500Education$129,341

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 CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $2,090,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $2,020,764 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSaint John's Hospice: $375,100 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetAmigos de Jesus: $196,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $103,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF PHILADE OF PHILADELPHIA: $53,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMOTHER OF MERCY HOUSE INC: $39,200 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetDOLAN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE ACADEMY: $6,341 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE TEEN INC: $5,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence: $2,500 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 CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
  • Who funds LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Saint John's Hospice ↗
  • Who funds Amigos de Jesus ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF PHILADE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds MOTHER OF MERCY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOLAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LIFE TEEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence ↗

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.

Connelly FoundationWsfs Cares FoundationUnited Way of Greater…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…
Connelly FoundationPA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connelly Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Riley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Riley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 34 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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