· Private foundation
The Flaherty 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $221k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $60,630 |
| EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE | $60,000 |
| WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| COOPER UNION | $50,000 |
| TECHNOSERVE INC | $25,000 |
| JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| AIM AT MELANOMA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS | $5,000 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| THE FLOW | $500 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY | $500 |
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 (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -36% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITECHNOSERVE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $425k · revenue +41%
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE7× · 2019–2025 · $188k · revenue +34%- FPFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $87k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- WCWeill Cornellone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- UUUNITED UKRAINIAN AMERICAN RELIEF COMMITTEE INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -89%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENYON REVIEW ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED UKRAINIAN AMERICAN RELIEF COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF PEOPLES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLOW ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD A LATTA SCHOLARSHIP FUND 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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Flaherty Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Flaherty Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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