· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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
| 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 |
| 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 |
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.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 27% of all-years giving ($4.1M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%- UWUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +163%
- SFSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INCone 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.
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.
(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…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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