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The Mahoney 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.

$308k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 15
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$625k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Mahoney Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$303k38%
FY202414$512k36%
FY202315$600k53%
FY202213$528k46%
FY202010$251k40%
FY201915$502k40%
FY201815$324k67%
FY20179$205kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.7MYouth Development$597kHousing & Shelter$292kEmployment$155kHealth$132kFood & Nutrition$110kReligion$86kPhilanthropy$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
RI
CO
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wake Forest University$520,00050%
Trustees of Boston College$497,64060%
Crossroads Rhode Island$291,82141%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc$160,00040%
Year Up Inc$155,24640%
Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc$118,00041%
Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc$75,00020%
Ron Burton Training Village Inc$70,00020%
Grateful for Gods Providence$50,0002n/a
Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association$40,00030%
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($977k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mahoney Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWake Forest University: $520,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $497,640 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Rhode Island: $291,821 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYear Up Inc: $155,246 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc: $118,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCamp Harbor View Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRhode Island Community Food Bank Association: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Highlander Charter School: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Quell Foundation: $29,808 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCatholic Schools Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdesia Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Food Pantry: $24,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNantucket Land & Water Council Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Museum Associates Risd: $10,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEhas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetBilly Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa: $7,422 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Center for the Book: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Michael H Flanagan Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colorado College: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNarragansett Council Boy Scouts of America: $627 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMustard Seed Communities Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

United Way of Rhode Island IncRI19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to The Mahoney Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Mahoney 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.

About The Mahoney Family Foundation

How much does The Mahoney Family Foundation give?
The Mahoney Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $308,298 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Mahoney Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Youth Development (17%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
Who are The Mahoney Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wake Forest University ($520k), Trustees of Boston College ($498k), Crossroads Rhode Island ($292k).
Does The Mahoney Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mahoney Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mahoney Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Rhode Island Inc, Amica Companies Foundation, The Champlin Foundation.
Where is The Mahoney Family Foundation based?
The Mahoney Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 55 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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