· Private foundation
The Mary Kay and James D Farley Fund
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POPE FRANCIS CENTER | $53,333 |
| THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $21,666 |
| FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HARBOR SPRINGS | $10,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO - SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY | $5,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| SHEIL CATHOLIC CENTER AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $243k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FCFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HARBOR SPRINGS3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +23%
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +96%
- TJTHE JEWISH MUSEUM2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- JSJUILLIARD SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +28%
- LTLITTLE TRAVERSE CIVIC THEATREone grant, 2023 · $15k
- SPSIMEONE PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH LABone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
As an innovative catholic, vincentian university anchored in the global city of chicago, depaul supports the integral human development of its students. the university does so through its commitment to outstanding teaching, academic…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
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…
The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society of St Vincent De Paul - Twin Cities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HARBOR SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Mary Kay and James D Farley Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.