· Private foundation
The McInerney 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOMUS | $946,500 |
| FOUNDATION IN EDUCATION | $764,340 |
| ST JOHN'S BREAD & LIFE PROGRAM | $500,000 |
| INVEST IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION | $210,000 |
| FUTURES IN EDUCATION | $181,500 |
| FRIENDS OF AMANI USA | $150,000 |
| CITY HARVEST INC | $150,000 |
| INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $110,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| SAGE HEALTHCARE | $67,000 |
| YANKEE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| WESTPORT LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK POPS INC | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% 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.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 16 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- FIFoundations in Education Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +198%
- DKDOMUS KIDS INC4× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +2%
- SJSt Johns Bread & Life Program Inc3× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +75%
Funded once
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue +41%
- SPST PETER SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $175k
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
The fund for public schools is dedicated to supporting new york city's public schools with private, philanthropic investment from foundations, individuals, businesses, and other charitable partners.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures in Education and the most unlike its peers is Westport Rotary Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 51 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 Foundations in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FUTURES IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK POPS INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMANI US INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT WESTON COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Newman's Own Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund
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 McInerney Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Seraphic Fire Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.