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Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$997k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$53k25%
FY202412$56k8%
FY202312$56k0%
FY202214$57k0%
FY202115$63k0%
FY202016$65k13%
FY201917$71k0%
FY201817$70k41%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$305kReligion$113kHousing & Shelter$84kFood & Nutrition$56kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated$89,00060%
East End House Inc$54,25090%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$37,00090%
Rosie's Place Inc$32,00090%
Saint Francis House Inc$22,00050%
Pine Street Inn Inc$19,00050%
Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc$8,00010%
Archdiocese of Boston Clergy Benefit Funding Trust$3,0001n/a
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$3,00030%
Saint Benedict Abbey$1,0001n/a

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($298k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSomerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated: $89,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEast End House Inc: $54,250 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $37,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $32,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis House Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust

How much does Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust give?
Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $53,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Religion (20%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
Who are Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated ($89k), East End House Inc ($54k), The Home for Little Wanderers Inc ($37k).
Does Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust based?
Americo J Francisco Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 29 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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