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The Mary Kay and James D Farley Fund at a glance

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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.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$208kHousing & Shelter$200kHealth$140kArts & Culture$85kHuman Services$78kEducation$71kPhilanthropy$40kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POPE FRANCIS CENTER$53,333
THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION$25,000
HOLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH$21,666
SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO - SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$10,000
FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HARBOR SPRINGS$10,000
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY$5,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
SHEIL CATHOLIC CENTER AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $5k → 9%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $50k → 21%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE: $3k → 9%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $50k → 21%ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $40k → 21%ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 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

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MN
IL
MI
NY
NJ
CT
AZ
DC
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$786k · 23 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

$786k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+28%

Still filing today

61%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • TA
    THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +26%
  • FC
    FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HARBOR SPRINGS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +23%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • JS
    JUILLIARD SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +28%
  • LT
    LITTLE TRAVERSE CIVIC THEATRE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • CM
    CORNELL MENTAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
St Mary's University

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.

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2
The Catholic University of America

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…

Education
3
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
4
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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5
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

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)

Education
6
John Carroll University

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…

Education
7
Depaul University

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…

Education
8
St Francis College

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.

Education
9
Augsburg University

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…

Education
10
University of New Haven

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
11
University of Dayton

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…

Education
12
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES OF WASHTENAW: $60,000 · OtherINTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES OF WASHTENAWSACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCHHOLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $36,666 · OtherHOLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCHCOMMUNITY THEATRE AT WOODBURY: $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY THEATRE AT WOODBURYFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HARBOR SPRINGS: $30,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HARBOR SPRINGSUniversity of Michigan: $25,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST BART'S PLAYERS GUILD: $20,000 · OtherLITTLE TRAVERSE CIVIC THEATRE: $15,000 · Other+12 more: $92,500 · Other+12 morePOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $140,000 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTERTHE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INCINTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $103,333 · ReligionPOPE FRANCIS …Cornell University: $20,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $9,000 · EducationEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - TWIN CITIES: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$393,166Human Services$252,500Religion$103,333Education$61,000Philanthropy$40,000Arts & Culture$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $140,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $103,333 over 2y, 87% of budgetTHE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - TWIN CITIES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HARBOR SPRINGS: $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 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 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 Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
  • Who funds INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary Kay and James D Farley Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Kay and James D Farley Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Mary Kay and James D Farley Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Mary Kay and James D Farley Fund 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 33 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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