· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE RIVERS SCHOOL (04-2104457)2× · 2023–2025 · $270k
- GWGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (53-0196584)2× · 2024–2025 · $110k
- BCBEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue -25%
Funded once
- TRTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +19%
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +90%
- RCROANOKE COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -6%
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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,…
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…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
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…
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 42 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Danae and John Foley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Danae and John Foley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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