· Private foundation
The Thomas & Elsie Deeley Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k11 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $12,500 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $12,113 |
| WORCHESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $9,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOESPH | $7,500 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| ECSU FOUNDATION INC | $7,350 |
| SO CONNECTICUT STATE UNIV | $6,005 |
| MARIST UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| REGIS COLLEGE | $4,100 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $3,750 |
| CENTRAL CONNECTICUT | $2,880 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Fairfield University5× · 2020–2024 · $111k · revenue +54%
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE3× · 2024–2026 · $35k · revenue +8%- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College4× · 2023–2026 · $30k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- CCCOASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- RDRAY DONNELLY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
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.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
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…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
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.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds ECSU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CO SPORTS ACADEMY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thomas & Elsie Deeley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas & Elsie Deeley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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