· Private foundation
The Mary Cooney and Edward Essl Charitable Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP | $6,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION INC | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $4,000 |
| THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY METRO | $2,000 |
| SINGLE PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC | $2,000 |
| THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE | $2,000 |
| SAINT JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $1,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 +44% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +60%
Save The Children Federation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +21%- SPSINGLE PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- PTPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- TATHE ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ACTIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- GWGOLDENS WITHOUT BORDERS RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
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.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent 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.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of the american academy of pediatrics is to obtain optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. the academy seeks to promote this goal by encouraging and assisting its…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART ↗
- Who funds SINGLE PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds Adopt a Golden Knoxville Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Mary Cooney and Edward Essl Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Cooney and Edward Essl Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Mary Cooney and Edward Essl Charitable Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Mary Cooney and Edward Essl Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
Play a game based on Mary Cooney and Edward Essl’s filings →