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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 FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 15
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations The Danae and John Foley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$288k29%
FY20249$62k56%
FY202315$482k60%
FY20229$74k78%
FY20216$91k50%
FY202013$499kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of The Danae and John Foley Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Rivers School Corporation$250,00011%
Amherst College Trustees$110,00010%
Beat Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc$80,00032%
Roanoke College$75,00010%
Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc$50,00010%
The Wellesley Free Library Foundation Inc$30,00022%
Psc Partners Seeking a Cure$20,00021%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$19,00050%
St Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church$10,0001n/a
Detectogether Inc Formerly Known as the 15-40 Connection Inc$8,00010%
The Oyster Harbors Club Scholarship Fund Inc$5,00011%
Mildred's Dream Foundation Inc$1,03610%
Pine Street Inn Inc$1,00010%

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($836k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Danae and John Foley Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

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

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.

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About The Danae and John Foley Foundation

How much does The Danae and John Foley Foundation give?
The Danae and John Foley Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $287,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Danae and John Foley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (27%), Religion (7%).
Who are The Danae and John Foley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Rivers School Corporation ($250k), Amherst College Trustees ($110k), Beat Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc ($80k).
Does The Danae and John Foley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Danae and John Foley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Danae and John Foley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is The Danae and John Foley Foundation based?
The Danae and John Foley Foundation is based in MA.

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 42 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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