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G L Connolly Foundation

Moraga, CA · EIN 20-0247328. Reported 68 grants totalling $491,400 to 68 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,500median grant
$491,400granted, 2024
68organizations funded
$15.7Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. G L Connolly Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
25 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
23 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
17 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Carmel of Jesus Mary and JosephFairfield, PA$30,000112024
Buckley Institute YaleNew Haven, CT$25,000112024
St Josephs CollegeStandish, ME$25,000112024
Wyoming Catholic CollegeLander, WY$22,000112024
Keep the FaithSaddle River, NJ$15,000112024
Ministry of CaringWilmington, DE$15,000112024
Thomas Aquinas CollegeSanta Paula, CA$15,000112024
United Way of Central MarylandBaltimore, MD$15,000112024
Kolbe AcademyNapa, CA$12,900112024
Lakes Environmental AssociationBridgton, ME$12,000112024
Little Sisters of the PoorBronx, NY$12,000112024
Little Sisters of the Poor Qn PeaceQueens Village, NY$12,000112024
Augustine InstituteGreenwood Village, CO$10,000112024
BecketWashington, DC$10,000112024
Calvary HospitalBronx, NY$10,000112024
Cristo Rey NetworkChicago, IL$10,000112024
Ethics and Public Policy CenterWashington, DC$10,000112024
Institute on Rel and Public LifeNew York, NY$10,000112024
Maine Policy InstitutePortland, ME$10,000112024
Manhattan InstituteNew York, NY$10,000112024
Center for Immigration StudiesWashington, DC$8,000112024
Thomas More College of Liberal ArtsMerrimack, NH$8,000112024
Capuchin ProvinceUnion City, NJ$7,000112024
Divine Mercy UniversitySterling, VA$7,000112024
Fed American Immigration ReformWashington, DC$7,000112024
Life Legal Defense FoundationNapa, CA$7,000112024
National Association of ScholarsNew York, NY$7,000112024
St Thomas More at YaleNew Haven, CT$7,000112024
Christendom CollegeFront Royal, VA$6,000112024
Eternal Word Television NetworkIrondale, AL$6,000112024
National Catholic Bioethics CenterBroomall, PA$6,000112024
Oblates of St Francis De SallesWilmington, DE$6,000112024
St Marys CenterOakland, CA$6,000112024
Visitation MonasteryTyringham, MA$6,000112024
Aid to the Church in NeedBrooklyn, NY$5,000112024
Assumption AbbeyAva, MO$5,000112024
Intercollegiate Studies InstituteWilmington, DE$5,000112024
Real Clear FoundationNorthbrook, IL$5,000112024
Society St Vincent De Paul Contra CPittsburgh, CA$5,000112024
St Agnes ChurchConcord, CA$5,000112024
The Hawthorn School FoundationBedford, NY$5,000112024
The International Dominican FoundMetairie, LA$5,000112024
Ursuline AcademyWilmington, DE$5,000112024
Catholic Near East Welfare AssocNew York, NY$4,000112024
Human Life InternationalFront Royal, VA$4,000112024
Our Lady of the Mississippi AbbeyDubuque, IA$4,000112024
Andrew L Hicks FoundationDowningtown, PA$3,000112024
Ave Maria UniversityAve Maria, FL$3,000112024
Merton College Oxford Char CorpVienna, VA$3,000112024
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY$3,000112024
Rachels Vineyard MinistriesKing of Prussia, PA$3,000112024
St Perpetua ChurchLafayette, CA$3,000112024
Dominican SistersFremont, CA$2,500112024
Pontifical North American UnivWashington, DC$2,500112024
Priestly Fraternity of Saint PeterSouth Abington Twp, PA$2,500112024
Acton InstituteGrand Rapids, MI$2,000112024
Cardinal Newman SocietyMerrifield, VA$2,000112024
Carmel of Jesus Mary and JosephKensington, CA$2,000112024
Center for Bioethical ReformLake Forest, CA$2,000112024
Knights of Columbus St PerpetuaLafayette, CA$2,000112024
Life Issues Institute IncFlorence, KY$2,000112024
Our Lady of Perpetual HelpNorth Windham, ME$2,000112024
Ruth InstituteLake Charles, LA$2,000112024
St Jean Baptiste ChurchNew York, NY$2,000112024
St Perpetua Church OutreachLafayette, CA$2,000112024
St Perpetua SchoolLafayette, CA$2,000112024
Priests for LifeCocoa, FL$1,000112024
St Ignatius Loyola ChurchNew York, NY$1,000112024
Plus 132 grants to individuals totalling $956,200 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
13 grants
Civil Rights
3 grants
Religion
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Environment
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 16% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$81K
California
$66K
Maine
$49K
Pennsylvania
$44K
District of Columbia
$38K
Connecticut
$32K
Delaware
$31K
Wyoming
$22K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from G L Connolly Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 6668, Moraga, CA, 94570. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-0247328 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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