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The Christine & John Connolly 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MICHAEL'S WAY | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $1,000 |
| EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD CHURCH | $1,000 |
| PENN MEMORY CENTER | $1,000 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY | $500 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Christine & John Connolly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +129% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- ESED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION7× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +103%
- CRCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +41%
- AHABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +375%
Funded once
- HCHOBART COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $4k
- EOEPIPHANY OF OUR LORDone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PUPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +25%
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.
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To be the preeminent provider of specialized healthcare services for infants, children and young adults. the organization provides medically necessary pediatric healthcare services to all children in a non-discriminatory manner regardless…
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…
Thomas jefferson university hospitals, inc. ("tjuh") is dedicated to improving the health of the communities we serve. we are committed to: 1) setting the standard for excellence in the delivery of patient care, patient safety and the…
To provide exceptional patient care and customer service to members of the communities served by the hospitals, and to recognize a patient's right to considerate and respectful care, regardless of ability to pay. please refer to schedule o…
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abington Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Social Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S WAY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BACKSTOP INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
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: The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 The Christine & John Connolly 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.
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