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Arthur Venneri Foundation at a glance

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Arthur Venneri 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.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$20kReligion$12kHuman Services$6kYouth Development$4kFood & Nutrition$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEducation$2kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
6
States reached
$95k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAY FUND$3,312
OPPORTUNITY PROJECT$1,100
SAYREVILLE BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN$1,000
ZION UNITED CHURCH$1,000
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CHURCH$775
PEYBACK FOUNDATION$750
ST HELEN'S CHURCH$625
MEALS ON WHEELS$500
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$500
PLAINSBORO RESCUE SQUAD$500
Y'S MENS CLUB$434
Individual grant recipient$360
MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES$342
ANNE FRANK CENTER$308
FRIEND OF WESTFIELD LIBRARY$275
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT: $1k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
NJ
CA
CO
MO
TN
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 25 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
18

Total granted

$48k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+39%

Still filing today

36%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • SA
    SAYREVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • PR
    PLAINSBORO RESCUE SQUAD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +50%
  • GS
    GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • WW
    WEST WINDSOR FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • SB
    SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $750
  • AF
    AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PRE
    one grant, 2022 · $500
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
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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2
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
3
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
4
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
5
University of Mount Saint Vincent

Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)

Education
6
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
9
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

A medical school dedicated to excellence in the tripartite academic medical missions of education, scientific research, and clinical care.

Education
10
The Real Estate Board of New York Inc

1. to unite in common organization those professionally engaged in real estate. 2. to protect and promote the mutual interests of its members. 3. to formulate and maintain ethical standards for the guidance of its members in their…

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11
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
12
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sayreville Association for Brain Injured Children. 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

18 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. 18 of the 58 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAY FUND: $11,812 · OtherJAY FUNDOUR LADY OF LOURDES CHURCH: $4,165 · OtherOUR LADY OF LOURDES CHURCHMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES: $3,129 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIESQUEENSHIP OF MARY CHURCH: $2,750 · OtherQUEENSHIP OF MARY CHURCHST HELEN'S CHURCH: $2,200 · OtherZION UNITED CHURCH: $1,750 · OtherPLAINSBORO RESCUE SQUAD: $1,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,635 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,600 · OtherY'S MENS CLUB: $1,584 · Other+37 more: $12,943 · Other+37 moreSAYREVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthSAYREVILLE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $300 · HealthALZHEIMER'…PEYBACK FOUNDATION INC: $2,350 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $300 · PhilanthropyGEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC: $1,600 · Arts & CultureOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $1,100 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $300 · Human ServicesATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterSIENA UNIVERSITY: $350 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $100 · EducationVanderbilt University: $100 · Education
Other$45,268Health$5,300Philanthropy$2,650Arts & Culture$1,600Human Services$1,400Housing & Shelter$1,000Education$550

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 budgetSAYREVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN: $5,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPEYBACK FOUNDATION INC: $2,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLAINSBORO RESCUE SQUAD: $1,700 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetScotch Plains Rescue Squad Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINSIDE RESTORATION COMMITTEE DBA HETFIELD HOUSE: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVanderbilt University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds SAYREVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PEYBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAINSBORO RESCUE SQUAD ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Scotch Plains Rescue Squad Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZON HOUSE 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arthur Venneri Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur Venneri Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Opportunity Project Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–15%
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 58 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