· Private foundation
The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of THE DENIS P AND CAROL A KELLEHER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PROJECT HOSPITALITY | $31,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $16,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE | $12,500 |
| ST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ST ANN'S CHURCH | $2,550 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY CLERGY RESIDENCE | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF STATEN ISLAND | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NWNEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL4× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +180%
- PHPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $139k · revenue +69%
- SJSt Johns Bread & Life Program Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $205k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- DTDR THEODORE A ATLAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Yorkers for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 94 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CONNOR HUNT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLEY'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAGNER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS 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.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Staten Island Foundation · Richmond County Savings Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Roberta and Allan Weissglass Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · National Grid Foundation · City Harvest Inc
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 Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.