· Private foundation
The Counihan Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $545k
- $50k–250k37 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+2 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GET AHEAD PROJECT QUEENSTOWN | $500,000 |
| UNITY IN AFRICA TRUST | $300,000 |
| REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL | $225,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $200,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $150,000 |
| CARE | $150,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $125,000 |
| DAMANT LODGE HOME FOR THE AGED | $100,000 |
| MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VANDERBILT GIFT AND DONATIONS | $100,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $100,000 |
| GLOBALGIVING | $75,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $75,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
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 US giving — 73% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 27% that went abroad ($4.1M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 27% of all-years giving ($4.1M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
65 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $725k · revenue +39%- VUVanderbilt University Medical Center3× · 2022–2025 · $700k · revenue +35%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $360k · revenue +12%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +55%- SFSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
(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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
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…
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mending Hearts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luke 14-12. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 79 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 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · Saint Thomas West Hospital
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 Counihan Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.