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The Delaney Family Foundation at a glance

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The Delaney 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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$7.7MHealth$1.4MEnvironment$5k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $650k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETERANS FELLOWSHIP FUND - UPENN WHARTON$750,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$500,000
MAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK$400,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$200,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$200,000
CRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL$200,000
ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 16%VETERANS FELLOWSHIP FUND - UPENN WHARTON: $750k → 22%YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $25k → 9%MAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK: $400k → 17%ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 16%WHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION: $600k → 22%YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $25k → 9%MAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NY: $200k → 17%CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 16%WHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $600k → 22%YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $10k → 9%MAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NY: $200k → 17%KIAWAH CONSERVANCY: $5k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%WHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION: $600k → 22%MAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NY: $200k → 17%CRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL: $200k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%WHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION: $600k → 22%MAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NY: $200k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%WHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION: $600k → 22%MAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NY: $200k → 17%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of The Delaney Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 16% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 1%.

The Delaney Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 5 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 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

5
3

Total granted

$7.2M
$610k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+132%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
EducationEnvironmentHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WG
    WHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +128% · 27% of their budget
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +49%
  • YP
    YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • WS
    WHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
    one grant, 2020 · $600k
  • TK
    The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +132%
  • CC
    Charleston Collegiate School
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.

04Its field
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,700,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYMAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NY: $1,000,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NYVETERANS FELLOWSHIP FUND - UPENN WHARTON: $750,000 · OtherVETERANS FELLOWSHIP FUND - UPENN WHARTONWHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $600,000 · OtherWHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAMAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK: $400,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH METRO NEW YORK+1 more: $5,000 · OtherWHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION: $2,400,000 · EducationWHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATIONDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYCRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $200,000 · EducationCRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC+1 more: $60,000 · EducationRoper St Francis Foundation: $50,000 · HealthThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc: $5,000 · Environment
Other$5,455,000Education$3,660,000Health$50,000Environment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION: $2,400,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCharleston Collegiate School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 WHARTON GRADUATE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Collegiate School ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Delaney Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Delaney Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Delaney Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Delaney Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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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