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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.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$624kArts & Culture$190kYouth Development$187kInternational$108kHealth$104kHuman Services$53kEnvironment$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POWATER$57,000
CULINARY INSITUTE OF AMERICA$28,000
AVON OLD FARM SCHOOL$25,000
SQUASH HAVEN$19,000
POSSE FOUNDATION$10,000
JAY HERITAGE CENTER$10,000
WILDCAT SANCTUARY$7,500
LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$5,000
RAINN$5,000
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES$5,000
BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI$5,000
PERPICH ARTS HS - MUSIC DEPARTMENT$5,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$5,000
ST THOMAS ACADEMY$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$4,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $8k → 9%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $3k → 9%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $3k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $3k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $3k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE: $5k → 15%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%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

VT
WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
OR
WY
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
DC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 38 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
19

Total granted

$1.5M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+33%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • AO
    AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +61%
  • OP
    ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +33%
  • SH
    SQUASH HAVEN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +199%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
    one grant, 2021 · $73k
  • CG
    COURAGEOUS GIRLS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • 5F
    5Point Film Festival
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -2%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
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
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Augustana College

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…

Education
6
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

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…

—
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Frontiers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 68 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
34/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POWATER: $225,850 · OtherPOWATERST THOMAS ACADEMY: $77,000 · OtherST THOMAS ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $73,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURELUNDSTRUM CENTER: $65,000 · OtherLUNDSTRUM CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPERPICH ARTS HS - MUSIC DEPARTMENT: $62,500 · OtherPERPICH ARTS HS - MUSIC DEPARTMENTTHE ACCESS FUND: $30,000 · Other+21 more: $166,350 · Other+21 moreAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $202,750 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INCTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INCRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $44,000 · EducationRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC: $35,500 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INCCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $28,000 · EducationCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICAST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $27,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $22,700 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Education+9 more: $30,500 · Education+9 moreSQUASH HAVEN INC: $104,000 · Human ServicesSQUASH HAVEN…YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTI…PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $28,500 · Human ServicesPORT CHESTER…Los Cabos Children's Foundation: $24,000 · Human ServicesLos Cabos Ch…+1 more: $5,250 · Human ServicesONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $107,700 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $14,500 · InternationalBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $75,000 · HealthCOURAGEOUS GIRLS: $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $12,400 · HealthCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $5,000 · HealthCAPITOL CITY MEDICAL TEAMS: $4,000 · Health+2 more: $4,000 · HealthTHE JAY HERITAGE CENTER: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM CORP: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Art Base: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $13,500 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $5,000 · AnimalsFELINE RESCUE INC: $3,000 · AnimalsTWIN CITIES PET RESCUE: $2,500 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $2,000 · Animals
Other$764,700Education$462,950Human Services$192,750International$122,200Health$115,400Arts & Culture$48,000Animals$26,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $202,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $107,700 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetSQUASH HAVEN INC: $104,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $44,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAY HERITAGE CENTER: $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC: $35,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $28,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLos Cabos Children's Foundation: $24,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $22,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER EMERGENCY RELIEF INC: $21,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetJOURNEY NORTH: $15,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOURAGEOUS GIRLS: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $12,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budget5Point Film Festival: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $5,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL GABLES MUSEUM CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAPITOL CITY MEDICAL TEAMS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELINE RESCUE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBreck School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PET RESCUE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Art Base: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE 2 COMMUNITIES FKA CONTAINERS TO CLINICS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 5Point Film Festival ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Xcel Energy FoundationBaird Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…The US Charitable Gif…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL17.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Nolan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nolan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • Friends of the Underline Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Squash Haven Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home