· Private foundation
The Nolan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POWATER | $57,000 |
| CULINARY INSITUTE OF AMERICA | $28,000 |
| AVON OLD FARM SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SQUASH HAVEN | $19,000 |
| JAY HERITAGE CENTER | $10,000 |
| POSSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WILDCAT SANCTUARY | $7,500 |
| LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RAINN | $5,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| PERPICH ARTS HS - MUSIC DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $4,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- AOAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +61%
- OPONEVILLAGE PARTNERS8× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +33%
- SHSQUASH HAVEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +199%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUREone grant, 2021 · $73k
- CGCOURAGEOUS GIRLSone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue 0%
- 5F5Point Film Festivalone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -2%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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 Youth Frontiers Inc and the most unlike its peers is 5Point Film Festival. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 68 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 AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SQUASH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Los Cabos Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY NORTH ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS GIRLS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 5Point Film Festival ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC ↗
- Who funds CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER ↗
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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Nolan 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.
- Friends of the Underline Inc — 66% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc — 4% 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.