· Private foundation
The Cunningham 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASS GENERAL STROKE GENETICS RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| EMMANUEL COLLEGE | $4,500 |
| RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $3,800 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ST EDWARD CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $3,000 |
| FONTBONNE ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| DANA HALL SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| THE FUND FOR IRISH AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIPS OF NY | $2,000 |
| Georgetown University | $1,500 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| WINSOR SCHOOL | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
EMMANUEL COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +42%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +70%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- MSMGH STROKE GENETICS RESEARCHone grant, 2017 · $8k
- PBPALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
- RCRYE COUNTY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 29 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 EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cunningham Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cunningham Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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