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Agathe M Costa Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Agathe M Costa Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$71kHousing & Shelter$21kInternational$18kHuman Services$13kFood & Nutrition$11kArts & Culture$10kCommunity Improvement$7kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST TUESDAY FUND$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–23, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $1k → 14%HONOR FLIGHT: $10k → 15%HONOR FLIGHT: $3k → 15%Covenant House: $5k → 17%Long Island Cares: $5k → 7%Covenant House: $1k → 17%ISLAND HARVEST: $1k → 6%Long Island Cares: $1k → 7%Covenant House: $1k → 17%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 6%Long Island Cares: $1k → 7%Covenant House: $500 → 17%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 6%Long Island Cares: $500 → 7%ISLAND HARVEST: $100 → 6%Long Island Cares: $500 → 7%Covenant House: $150 → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Agathe M Costa Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Agathe M Costa Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 12 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$142k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Human ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $64k · revenue +125%
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +115%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • TM
    The Marty Lyons Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -21%
  • DB
    DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -76%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +40%
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.

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Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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2
Health and Welfare Council of Long Island Inc

Serve the most vulnerable on li by convening and supporting agencies that serve them

Health
3
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…

Food & Nutrition
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
The North Shore Land Alliance Inc

To conserve and steward long island's natural and historic lands, waters and environmental resources. through education, outreach and volunteerism, we connect people to nature and inspire a community conservation ethic.

Environment
6
Altruism for New York Foundationinc
Civil Rights
7
Long Island Association Inc

Lia is a business membership group that supports economic development on long island.

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8
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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9
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
12
Brookhaven Health Care Services Corp

The goals and objectives of the foundation are as follows:to support the mission and charitable purposes of nyulhs, nyu langone hospitals ("nyulh"), lich and the medical schools owned and operated by new york university (collectively, "nyu…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Downtown Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $64,400 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCThe Marty Lyons Foundation Inc: $3,500 · HealthHONOR FLIGHT INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT INCLong Island Cares Inc: $8,000 · Human ServicesLong Island Cares IncCOVENANT HOUSE: $7,650 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSEISLAND HARVEST LTD: $2,100 · Human ServicesISLAND HARVEST LTD+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $13,200 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYIndividual grant recipient: $5,650 · OtherIndividual grant recip…FIRST TUESDAY FUND: $5,000 · OtherFIRST TUESDAY FUNDPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2,300 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSISTERS OF LIFE: $2,000 · OtherSISTERS OF LIFEVICTIMS INFORMATION BUREAU OF SUFFOLK: $1,600 · Other+3 more: $750 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,150 · InternationalNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $9,600 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE: $2,250 · Community ImprovementROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,520 · PhilanthropyNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $250 · Animals
Health$67,900Human Services$31,750Other$30,500International$12,150Arts & Culture$9,600Community Improvement$2,250Philanthropy$1,520Animals$250

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $64,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $9,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $7,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marty Lyons Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE: $2,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVICTIMS INFORMATION BUREAU OF SUFFOLK: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Agathe M Costa Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Agathe M Costa Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to Agathe M Costa Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Agathe M Costa Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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