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The Danae and John Foley 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.

$288k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$883kHealth$402kReligion$100kYouth Development$55kHuman Services$30kHousing & Shelter$25kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (53-0196584)$100,000
BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION (27-2314549)$40,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (04-3475950)$25,000
THE RIVERS SCHOOL (04-2104457)$20,000
CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC (75-3235491)$20,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL (04-2312909)$15,000
ROANOKE COLLEGE (54-0505945)$12,500
THE MICHAEL J FOX F'DATION FOR PARKINSON RES (13-4141945)$10,000
SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF SPRINGFIELD (04-2106765)$10,000
PSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE (20-2112635)$10,000
CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC (75-3235491)$5,000
OHC EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND (04-2997707)$5,000
DETECTOGETHER CANCER FOUNDATION (26-2873903)$5,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS (54-2143612)$5,000
CROSSROADS FOR KIDS (04-2103837)$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 8%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$783k · 14 repeat orgs$712k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
23

Total granted

$783k
$660k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+67%

Still filing today

29%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • TR
    THE RIVERS SCHOOL (04-2104457)
    2× · 2023–2025 · $270k
  • GW
    GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (53-0196584)
    2× · 2024–2025 · $110k
  • BC
    BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue -25%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +19%
  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +90%
  • RC
    ROANOKE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

3
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

5
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
6
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
7
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
8
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rivers School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Psc Partners Seeking a Cure. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE RIVERS SCHOOL (04-2104457) — $270,000 · OtherTHE RIVERS SCHOOL (04-2104457)THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $250,000 · OtherTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATIONGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (53-0196584) — $110,000 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (53-0196584)CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (04-3475950) — $65,500 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (04-3475950)BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL (04-2312909) — $50,000 · OtherST DEMETRIOUS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH (04-2755887) — $50,000 · OtherBEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION (27-2314549) — $45,000 · Other+26 more — $290,525 · Other+26 moreAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $110,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE …ROANOKE COLLEGE — $75,000 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGETHE WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationTHE WELLESLEY FR…BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · HealthDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC — $8,000 · HealthCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $19,000 · Housing & ShelterMILDRED'S DREAM FOUNDATION INC — $1,036 · PhilanthropyPINE STREET INN INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$1,131,025Education$215,000Health$88,000Youth Development$50,000Housing & Shelter$19,000Philanthropy$1,036Human Services$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OYSTER HARBORS CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMILDRED'S DREAM FOUNDATION INC — $1,036 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
  • Who funds BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE
  • Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS)
  • Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC
  • Who funds THE OYSTER HARBORS CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
  • Who funds MILDRED'S DREAM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Danae and John Foley 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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