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Anthony J and Christie B de Nicola Foundation at a glance

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Anthony J and Christie B de Nicola Foundation

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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$5.1MReligion$2.8MRecreation & Sports$1.7MHealth$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.3MSocial Science$735kCivil Rights$457kPhilanthropy$431kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
$15,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRILLA NEW JERSEY CHARTER SCHOOL$500,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND$400,000
INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$362,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$286,000
Individual grant recipient$280,000
INVEST IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$200,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS$200,000
CATHEDRAL OF ST JHON THE BAPTIST$155,000
THE BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY$150,000
TURNING POINT USA$100,000
DIOCESE OF VENICE IN FLORIDA$100,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$100,000
ETHICS & PUBLIC POLICY CENTER$75,000
STUDENTS FOR LIFE AMERICA$50,000
DOMINICAN THOMISTIC INSTITUTE$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAVE OUR ALLIES: $50k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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 25% of Anthony J and Christie B de Nicola Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Anthony J and Christie B de Nicola Foundationlessmore 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 31 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
33

Total granted

$7.4M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+10%

Still filing today

61%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
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

  • TB
    The Becket Fund
    6× · 2019–2024 · $985k · revenue +81%
  • IC
    INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $713k · revenue +18%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $425k · revenue +494% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • SE
    SETON EDUCATION PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $625k · revenue +41%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTE DAME
    one grant, 2023 · $406k
  • SI
    SOFIA INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS
    one grant, 2019 · $350k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Cabrini Legacy Corporation

See schedule o.education of the heart: cabrini university was a catholic institution of higher education. the cabrini legacy corporation exists to protect the legacy of the former university.cabrini university was a catholic institution of…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cherokee Plantation Charities Inc. 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

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 90 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
30/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHEDRAL OF ST JHON THE BAPTIST: $1,005,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST JHON THE BAPTISTFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: $1,000,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $822,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $713,000 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCBRILLA NEW JERSEY CHARTER SCHOOL: $500,000 · OtherBRILLA NEW JERSEY CHARTER SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF NORTE DAME: $405,825 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTE DAMEREAD TO LEAD INC: $375,000 · OtherSOFIA INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS: $350,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $280,000 · Other+51 more: $1,827,811 · Other+51 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,652,210 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dam…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $610,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBI…INVEST IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · EducationINVEST IN EDUCATION FOU…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows o…+8 more: $110,500 · EducationSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $625,000 · PhilanthropySETON EDUCA…PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $425,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP…KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC: $400,000 · PhilanthropyKNIGHTS OF …+3 more: $46,000 · PhilanthropyALBION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,218,164 · Community ImprovementALBION CO…The Becket Fund: $985,000 · Social Science+1 more: $10,000 · Social ScienceINSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC: $425,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthSAINT PIO FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Health+3 more: $8,500 · HealthSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $100,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Religion
Other$7,578,636Education$3,172,710Philanthropy$1,496,000Community Improvement$1,218,164Social Science$995,000Health$598,500Religion$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,652,210 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALBION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,218,164 over 3y, 32% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $985,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $713,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $625,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $610,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC: $425,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $425,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetINVEST IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC: $400,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO LEAD INC: $375,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAINT PIO FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSave Our Allies: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Johns Bread & Life Program Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundations in Education Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEROKEE PLANTATION CHARITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetGalileo Foundation US Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Educational Innovation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGoodman Institute for Public Policy Research: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $1,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL GOOD DAWGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUSION ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds ALBION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
  • Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds INVEST IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds READ TO LEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Save Our Allies ↗
  • Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗

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.

Beth and Ravenel Curr…Knights of Columbus C…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Donors Trust IncJewish Communal FundHickory FoundationThe Achelis & Bodman …The Lynde and Harry B…Walton Family Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…The Greater Cincinnat…
Beth and Ravenel Curry FoundationPA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Hickory Foundation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Greater Cincinnati 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 Anthony J and Christie B de Nicola Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anthony J and Christie B de Nicola Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 90 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home