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Carl del Signore Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$861kReligion$382kHealth$32kPublic Benefit$21kHousing & Shelter$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kEnvironment$10kPhilanthropy$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Publicly Traded Securities Wells F.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$8,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE$6,000
ST PETER THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC$5,000
ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDA$5,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
GARRETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY$4,000
EASTERN WV COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL$4,000
JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY$4,000
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL CO$4,000
DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE$4,000
POTOMAC STATE COLLEGE OF WVU$4,000
WV WESLEYAN COLLEGE$4,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 13%GMC GLOBAL ONLINE LEADERSHIP COLLEG: $10k → 24%TOWN OF BAYARD: $6k → 14%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%DAVIS THOMAS ELEMENTARY MIDDLE: $9k → 16%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN WV: $10k → 17%WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $8k → 19%GARRETT COLLEGE: $6k → 15%HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 13%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $14k → 15%THE COURTLAND FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $8k → 19%GARRETT COLLEGE: $6k → 15%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 15%WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $8k → 19%GARRETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 15%GARRETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 15%DAUGHTER OF THE KING MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 19%GARRETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDA: $5k → 18%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%GARRETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDA: $5k → 18%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%GARRETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDA: $5k → 18%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 15%GARRETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 18%ST PETER THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC: $6k → 15%FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $14k → 18%ST PETER THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC: $6k → 15%FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 18%ST PETER THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC: $6k → 15%FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 18%ST PETER THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC: $6k → 15%FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 18%ST PETER THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC: $5k → 15%FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%TUCKER COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $7k → 16%TUCKER COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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KY
WV
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 63 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
23

Total granted

$1.3M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

16%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterReligionFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +5%
  • AC
    ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +55%
  • DE
    DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN WV
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • GC
    GARRETT COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CF
    CORTLAND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Wofford College

The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…

3
Washington University of Virginia

Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs

4
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
5
West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc

The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.

Education
6
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

7
Roberts Wesleyan University

As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.

Education
8
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
9
Marymount University

Marymount is a nationally ranked comprehensive catholic university, guided by the traditions of the religious of the sacred heart of mary, that emphasizes intellectual curiosity, service to others, and a global perspective. a marymount…

10
Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

The mission of pennsylvania institute of technology is student success. continued on schedule o.the college provides a supportive environment to enable committed students to succeed by offering the best collegiate education for career…

Education
11
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

12
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saddles & Smiles Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsSubstance Abuse TreatmentFood Pantries & AssistanceAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Health CentersIndependent K-8 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public University Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%13%<5yr11%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr14%4%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr20%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%7%<5yr11%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr14%2%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr20%66%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
11%
1,158/10,913

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $76,000 · OtherFAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONFROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · OtherFROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITYFAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY — $57,000 · Other+70 more — $874,392 · Other+70 moreWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $131,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY…WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE — $32,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN C…ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $29,000 · EducationALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARY…DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE — $28,000 · EducationDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGEFROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT — $22,000 · EducationFROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSI…PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC — $16,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY — $16,000 · EducationWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · Education+4 more — $23,500 · Education+4 moreTUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $23,500 · PhilanthropyREFLECTION HOUSE INC — $5,000 · HealthSaddles & Smiles Inc — $1,500 · HealthCORTLAND FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterDAUGHTER OF THE KING MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 · ReligionBLACKWATER MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION — $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,082,392Education$309,500Philanthropy$23,500Health$6,500Housing & Shelter$5,000Religion$5,000Food & Nutrition$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $131,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE — $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $29,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE — $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $23,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT — $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VALLEY FORGE OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARRETT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCORTLAND FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetREFLECTION HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMCPHS UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKWATER MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSaddles & Smiles Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
  • Who funds ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE
  • Who funds TUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT
  • Who funds PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403WV13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403 · Ritton Family Foundation · Scott Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Verizon Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Carl del Signore Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Mcphs University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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