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The Devlin Foundation at a glance

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The Devlin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$994k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.0MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$902kHealth$303kReligion$277kRecreation & Sports$202kInternational$35kPhilanthropy$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $505k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IRISH ARTS CENTER$300,000
CENTER FOR SAFE & HOPE$200,000
THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY$105,000
ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL LANDMARK FOUNDATION INC$100,400
Individual grant recipient$100,000
JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION$37,500
CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT$25,000
VILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP$20,000
RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION$15,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES BROOKLYN & QUEENS$15,000
SIGNAL 30 NYS TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND$15,000
HORIZONS AT SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$10,000
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$7,500
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND$5,000
NEW YORK RACE TRACK CHAPLIANCY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER FOR SAFE & HOPE: $200k → 7%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $5k → 16%FAITH IN CHILDREN: $1k → 6%FAITH IN CHILDREN: $1k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 29 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
45

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+31%

Still filing today

66%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther
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

  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $925k · revenue +21%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $725k · revenue +53%
  • TJ
    THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $650k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL
    one grant, 2020 · $217k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IOWA REACH PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $115k
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

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.

1
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
8
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
9
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Dianne and Michael Bienes Charitable Foundation Inc. 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

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 89 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
28/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $925,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIO…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $725,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE+6 more: $43,250 · EducationST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL: $216,500 · OtherST PATRICK'S CATHEDRALUNIVERSITY OF IOWA REACH PROGRAM: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA REACH PROGR…Individual grant recipient: $180,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $122,500 · OtherCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT…Individual grant recipient: $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL LANDMARK FOUNDATION INC: $100,400 · OtherST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL LANDMARK…UNIVERSITY OF IOWA BASKETBALL PROGRAMS: $75,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY NYC: $50,000 · Other+44 more: $367,825 · Other+44 moreAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC: $1,018,500 · Arts & CultureAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INCWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOU…+11 more: $42,165 · Arts & CultureTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $650,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOE TORRE SAF…CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE A…+2 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $105,000 · HealthTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $71,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTHE SWARM COLLECTIVE INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyFRANCES POPE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyVILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,000 · InternationalCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $2,500 · InternationalRedeem International: $2,000 · International
Education$1,693,250Other$1,477,225Arts & Culture$1,210,665Human Services$857,000Health$188,500Philanthropy$86,000International$34,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC: $1,018,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $925,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $725,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $150,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $105,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SWARM COLLECTIVE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $71,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetVILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARQUIS STUDIOS LTD: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCES POPE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSASCO CREEK NEIGHBORS ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYaa Samar Dance Theatre: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADWORKSINC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRedeem International: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAITH IN CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD POLICE FOUNDATION CT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $765 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLARK FOUNDATION: $725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METROPOLITAN CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIANNE AND MICHAEL BIENES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $275 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SWARM COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds MARQUIS STUDIOS LTD ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANCES POPE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗

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.

Smith Richardson Foun…Grace Jones Richardso…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…
Smith Richardson Foundation IncNC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Devlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Devlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Center for Hope and Safety Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Pequot Library Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 89 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home