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Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$515k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$4.5MArts & Culture$290kReligion$60kHuman Services$55kEducation$46kPhilanthropy$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $413k
  • $250k+2 grants · $765k
$18,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$515,000
ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION$250,000
THE VALERIE FUND$95,000
THE SEEING EYE$80,000
ADLER APHASIA CENTER$75,000
DKMS$62,500
CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL$50,000
SPECTRUM FOR LIVING DEVELOPMENT$45,000
CHILDREN'S AID & FAMILY SERVICE$25,000
HOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$18,500
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$15,447
HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$12,500
BERGEN VOLUNTEER CENTER$10,000
HACKENSACK MERIDIAN OCEAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$5,500
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 (FY20–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE SEEING EYE: $80k → 4%CROSS ROADS 4 HOPE: $10k → 5%SPECTRUM FOR LIVING DEVELOPMENT: $45k → 7%THE SEEING EYE: $50k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $104k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $56k → 4%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID & FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 7%CHILDREN'S AID & FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 7%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 18 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
19

Total granted

$3.9M
$946k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+20%

Still filing today

56%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • D
    DKMS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $586k · revenue +57%
  • AA
    ADLER APHASIA CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $315k · revenue +51%
  • BP
    BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $237k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • HU
    HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $508k
  • AL
    ALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +4%
  • SS
    SOUND START BABIES PROGRAM FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +257%
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
Schi Disability Services Inc

Schi disability services (sds) is dedicated to providing a variety of needed services to individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities and their families in a way that preserves their dignity and integrity, while improving their…

Human Services
2
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
3
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
4
Arc Foundation of Warren County Inc

The arc foundation of warren county was established in 1998 to provide a continuum of funding to help assure the financial security of arc programs for people with developmental disabilities.

Education
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
Hackensack Specialty Care Associates Pc

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

Health
7
Avidd Community Services of New Jersey Inc

The organization's primary mission is to enable developmentally disabled individuals to develop fully within the structure of family life which encourages responsibility, growth, and independence.

Health
8
Vgs Inc

Providing work experience and employment for persons with significant disabilities through government contract work.

Human Services
9
Search for Change Inc

Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…

Human Services
10
Hmh Hospitals Corporation

The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…

Health
11
Bestwork Industries for the Blind Inc

Bestwork industries for the blind, inc. is a non-profit organization that provides opportunities for training and productive employment for many people who are blind and visually impaired. bestwork industries works closely with the…

Employment
12
The Manhattan Childrens Center

Provides transdisciplinary behavioral intervention and education to children and young adults, ages six to twenty-one, diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Speech School; the most unlike its peers is Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance. 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

25 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. 25 of the 45 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $715,000 · OtherENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATIONHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $531,000 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATIONHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INC: $512,500 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INCHACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $508,000 · OtherHACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERBUEHLER CHALLENGER & SCIENCE CENTER: $210,000 · OtherBUEHLER CHALLENGER & SCIENCE CENTERTHE VALERIE FUND: $206,500 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUND+20 more: $315,900 · Other+20 moreDKMS: $586,000 · HealthDKMSADLER APHASIA CENTER: $314,600 · HealthADLER APHASIA CENTERHOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $132,000 · HealthHOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER …CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $27,500 · HealthKessler Foundation Inc: $160,000 · Human ServicesKessler F…THE SEEING EYE INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEIN…SPECTRUM FOR LIVING DEVELOPMENT INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM …CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'…+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesBERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $237,447 · Arts & CultureALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $100,000 · EducationSOUND START BABIES PROGRAM FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN: $75,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY CHEST OF ENGLEWOOD: $23,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWARK INC: $250 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,998,900Health$1,110,100Human Services$400,000Arts & Culture$237,447Education$180,000Philanthropy$38,000Housing & Shelter$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDKMS: $586,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetADLER APHASIA CENTER: $314,600 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetBERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $237,447 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $206,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKessler Foundation Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $132,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $130,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSOUND START BABIES PROGRAM FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN: $75,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECTRUM FOR LIVING DEVELOPMENT INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY CHEST OF ENGLEWOOD: $23,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS4HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER HOPE NETWORK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWARK 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbia Bank Foundat…Investors Foundation …Community Foundation …Td Charitable Foundat…Pseg Foundation IncBristol-Myers Squibb …Blue Foundry Charitab…The Provident Bank Fo…Lillian P Schenck Tw …The Russell Berrie Fo…The Hyde and Watson F…Myron & Elaine Adler …
Columbia Bank FoundationNJ39.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Td Charitable Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · The Russell Berrie Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Myron & Elaine Adler Private Foundation

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 Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Bergen Family Center: 25% of income from government
  • Women's Rights Information Center: 16% of income from government
  • Adler Aphasia Center: 12% of income from government
  • Volunteer Center of Bergen County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Children's Aid and Family Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ramapo College Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • CROSSROADS4HOPE: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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Find your warmest path to Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni 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 45 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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