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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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$5.1MEducation$3.5MHuman Services$1.9MHealth$1.6MArts & Culture$775kReligion$542kPublic Benefit$500kFood & Nutrition$385kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $545k
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$50,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VANDERBILT GIFT AND DONATIONS$100,000
DAMANT LODGE HOME FOR THE AGED$100,000
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
DIRECT RELIEF$100,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
WEST END UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$75,000
FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA$75,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$75,000
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.

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SOLES4SOULS: $5k → 14%SOLES4SOULS: $5k → 14%SOLES4SOULS: $1k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $50k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $30k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $20k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

Beyond the US: 27% of all-years giving ($4.1M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
South Africa$2.5M · 10 grants
Canada$1.6M · 5 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 65 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
8

Total granted

$13M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+55%

Still filing today

66%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $725k · revenue +39%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    3× · 2022–2025 · $700k · revenue +35%
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $360k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +55%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +163%
  • SF
    SOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
5
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

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…

International
6
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

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.

Health
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
9
New York University

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.

Education
10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
12
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mending Hearts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
38/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITY IN AFRICA TRUST: $1,550,000 · OtherUNITY IN AFRICA TRUSTSTEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $1,550,000 · OtherSTEPHEN LEACOCK FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENDAMANT LODGE HOME FOR THE AGED: $500,000 · OtherDAMANT LODGE HOME FOR THE AGEDGET AHEAD PROJECT QUEENSTOWN: $500,000 · OtherGET AHEAD PROJECT QUEENSTOWNFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $280,000 · Other+39 more: $3,279,500 · Other+39 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $725,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $360,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTA…Save The Children Federation Inc: $330,000 · InternationalSave The Children Feder…REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $295,000 · InternationalREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL …International Rescue Committee INC: $285,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Co…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION…WORLD VISION INC: $225,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $220,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNA…DIRECT RELIEF: $210,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF+3 more: $215,000 · International+3 moreVanderbilt University Medical Center: $700,000 · HealthVanderbilt …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $245,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $185,000 · HealthAMERICAN CA…FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $150,000 · HealthFAITH FAMIL…INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $130,000 · HealthINTERFAITH …SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $70,000 · Health+4 more: $81,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · EducationMIAMI DADE…University of Miami: $100,000 · EducationUniversity…SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $135,000 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Association: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSouthern Exposure: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $205,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $145,000 · Food & NutritionBETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $120,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,000 · Human ServicesSOLES4SOULS INC: $11,000 · Human Services
Other$7,659,500International$3,140,000Health$1,561,000Education$1,400,000Arts & Culture$565,000Food & Nutrition$350,000Human Services$241,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $725,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $700,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $360,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $330,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $295,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $285,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $280,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $245,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $220,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $210,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $205,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $185,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $155,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFeeding America: $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $135,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $130,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMORNINGSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetBETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $120,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREADING EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPICOLINIS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetMENDING HEARTS INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUKE 14-12: $35,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSADDLE UP: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIRIAM'S PROMISE: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOLES4SOULS INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 MORNINGSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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.

Hca Healthcare FoundationTN29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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