· Private foundation
The Sean & Cathy Hanlon Foundation Inc
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 $10k22 grants · $35k
- $250k+1 grant · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $330,432 |
| LOST TREE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MARINE MAMAL STRANDING CENTER | $3,500 |
| BEACON ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| AC RESCUE MISSION | $2,250 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF OC | $2,000 |
| LOYOLA RETREAT HOUSE | $2,000 |
| CAPE MAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,000 |
| ATLANTIC COUNTY SPCA | $2,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AC | $1,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| CAPE MAY COUNTY ZOO | $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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 22 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- SIStevens Institute2× · 2017–2018 · $845k
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY2× · 2020–2024 · $686k · revenue +51%
- M5Miscelaneous 501c3 Organizations3× · 2017–2019 · $176k
Funded once
- MMMarine Mammal Stranding Centerone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
- LTLOST TREE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $4k
- HWHumane World for Animals Incone grant, 2024 · $3k · 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.
Provides refuge for homeless and unwanted animals, adoption services for homeless animals, and spay/neuter services.
The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.
The mission of the nj animal advocacy alliance is to protect the welfare of all homeless animals by reducing the number of homeless animals, offering low cost spay and neuter clinics, raising awareness and educating our youth.
Prevention of cruelty to animals
ANIMAL RESCUE and adoption of animals
The Voorhees Animal Orphanage ("VAO") is a 501-c-3 non-profit Municipal Animal Shelter dedicated to providing shelter, food and medical care to stray and unwanted animals until permanent homes can be found. We are an open-intake shelter…
The mission of almost home dog rescue of nj is to care for and place abandoned and abused dogs into caring homes.
A group of dedicated volunteers, mostly located in Monmouth County, NJ. We are focused on rehoming dogs and cats of all ages and sizes. ur dogs come from shelters in the local area and the south, owner surrenders in the area, and from…
Save dogs and cats from kill shelter get them the medical care spay neuter they need and find them forever homes through Adoption
Fire Rescue Training
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Atlantic County and the most unlike its peers is Upper Township Rescue Squad Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 26 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 THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammal Stranding Center ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Beacon Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER TOWNSHIP RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds MARMORA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Sean & Cathy Hanlon Foundation Inc 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 Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.