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The Sean & Cathy Hanlon Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$365k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Social Science$845kEducation$686kPhilanthropy$338kAnimals$21kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$2kReligion$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $35k
  • $250k+1 grant · $330k
$1,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$42k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$330,432
MARINE MAMAL STRANDING CENTER$3,500
LOST TREE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$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
ATLANTIC COUNTY SPCA$2,000
CAPE MAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$2,000
LOYOLA RETREAT HOUSE$2,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF OC$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 4 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
22

Total granted

$1.9M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

25%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
AnimalsEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • SI
    Stevens Institute
    2× · 2017–2018 · $845k
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $686k · revenue +51%
  • M5
    Miscelaneous 501c3 Organizations
    3× · 2017–2019 · $176k

Funded once

  • MM
    Marine Mammal Stranding Center
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +4%
  • LT
    LOST TREE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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
South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter Inc

Provides refuge for homeless and unwanted animals, adoption services for homeless animals, and spay/neuter services.

Animals
2
Hunterdon Humane Animal Shelter Inc
Animals
3
Humane Society of Union County Inc

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.

Animals
4
Nj Animal Advocacy Alliance

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.

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5
Friends of Bergen County Animal Shelter T/a Focas

Prevention of cruelty to animals

Animals
6
Animal Sanctuary Society Inc

ANIMAL RESCUE and adoption of animals

Animals
7
Voorhees Animal Orphanage Inc

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…

Animals
8
Almost Home Dog Rescue of Nj Inc

The mission of almost home dog rescue of nj is to care for and place abandoned and abused dogs into caring homes.

—
9
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
10
Wag On Inn Rescue

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…

Animals
11
No Paw Left Behind Animal Rescue a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Save dogs and cats from kill shelter get them the medical care spay neuter they need and find them forever homes through Adoption

Human Services
12
Animal Fire Rescue Training

Fire Rescue Training

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Atlantic County; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Stevens Institute: $845,000 · OtherStevens InstituteMiscelaneous 501c3 Organizations: $175,618 · OtherMiscelaneous 501c3 OrganizationsMiscellaneous 501 c3 organizations: $159,329 · OtherMiscellaneous 501 c3 organizations+13 more: $17,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $685,594 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF…Marine Mammal Stranding Center: $3,500 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsBeacon Animal Rescue: $3,000 · AnimalsATLANTIC COUNTY SPCA: $2,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC COUNTY: $1,500 · AnimalsCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $2,500 · Food & NutritionWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthMARMORA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,196,947Education$685,594Animals$13,000Food & Nutrition$2,500Human Services$1,000Health$500Public Safety & Disaster$500

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $685,594 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Mammal Stranding Center: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeacon Animal Rescue: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER TOWNSHIP RESCUE SQUAD INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARMORA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $250 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Sean & Cathy Hanlon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sean & Cathy Hanlon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 26 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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