· Private foundation
The Tierney Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
- $250k+1 grant · $383k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUTURE FUND FOR EDUCATION | $383,000 |
| WOMENS ALLIANCE FOR KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE | $110,000 |
| TECHNOSERVE INC | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $25,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| METO | $20,000 |
| BUDI FOUNDATION - INDONESIA | $20,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | $10,170 |
| TEACH FOR ALL INC | $10,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARKET PHOTO WORKSHOP | $7,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITECHNOSERVE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +51%
- HIHudson Institute Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +283%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- ALAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -89%
- SJST JOHN COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MSMENS SOCCER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 47 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 FUTURE FUND FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds METO INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds Kucetekela Foundation ↗
- Who funds Visual Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds International Surf Therapy Organization ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tierney Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tierney Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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