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The Hanley Foundation Co Sue Hanley

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.

$240k
Granted FY2024still arriving
117
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$81kArts & Culture$41kEducation$40kEnvironment$32kHuman Services$29kAnimals$25kFood & Nutrition$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 117 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 117 grants below total $209,650, the rows itemized in this filing. The $239,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,850 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k114 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
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States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center$50,000
Proctors$11,000
S.P.A.C.$11,000
Sitrin Foundation$6,000
Jones Library$5,000
On Point for College$5,000
Regional Food Bank$4,500
Rescue Mission of Rome$4,000
Rescue Mission of Utica$4,000
Rescue Me Purebread K9 Rescue, Inc.$4,000
North Carolina Diaster Relief Fund$4,000
Lewis City Humane Society$3,000
Food Bank of CNY$3,000
City Mission of Schenectady$3,000
Best Friends Animal Society$3,000
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 (FY20–21, $7k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEADS INC: $1k → 11%THE CARE CENTER: $400 → 11%FERST READERS: $1k → 11%THE CARE CENTER: $250 → 11%FERST READERS: $300 → 11%COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $1k → 14%FARM LINK PROJECT: $1k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $250 → 17%AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER: $1k → 12%AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER: $1k → 12%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99k · 50 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 93 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
54

Total granted

$99k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+31%

Still filing today

62%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • AC
    ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +29%
  • OP
    ON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +125%
  • RF
    REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • UN
    USC NORRIS CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • 3
    350ORG
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -31%
  • BF
    BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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 Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
8
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
9
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Valley Light Opera 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

62 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. 62 of the 199 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
49/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center: $50,000 · OtherNorris Comprehensive Cancer CenterUSC NORRIS CANCER CENTER: $15,000 · OtherS.P.A.C.: $11,000 · OtherProctors: $11,000 · OtherSPRING FARM CARES: $10,000 · Other+157 more: $199,350 · Other+157 moreARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,250 · Arts & CultureAMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC: $800 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $650 · Arts & Culture350ORG: $3,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $2,000 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EnvironmentGLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundation: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $950 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $600 · Environment+2 more: $1,050 · EnvironmentSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesFERST READERS INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesFARMLINK PROJECT: $1,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION: $900 · Human ServicesThe CARE Center: $650 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC: $5,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1,000 · Education10000 DEGREES: $1,000 · EducationAmherst Education Foundation Inc: $650 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $500 · PhilanthropyREADER TO READER INC: $300 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $1,500 · AnimalsWILDAID INC: $1,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Animals
Other$296,350Arts & Culture$17,700Environment$17,600Human Services$8,100Education$7,900Philanthropy$4,800Animals$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget350ORG: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,050 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF UTICA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $1,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFERST READERS INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHENECTADY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHOSTEL INC: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF WESTERN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKANEATELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEINC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROME RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEADS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NAZARENE FUND: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe CARE Center: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSKANEATELES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $500 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 ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
  • Who funds ON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS 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.

Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation IncNY15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Equitable Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Amherst Community Connections: 54% of income from government
  • Reader to Reader Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Survival Centers Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to The Hanley Foundation Co Sue Hanley 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 199 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $263k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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