· Private foundation
Cheryl and Paul Speranza Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF LAW | $15,000 |
| SAINT THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| WXXI | $10,000 |
| HOLY CROSS CHURCH | $9,500 |
| MOTHER OF SORROWS CHURCH | $7,500 |
| SANDRA ELLER MERCY PROGRAM | $7,294 |
| EWTN GLOBAL CATHOLIC NETWORK | $5,000 |
| CLOVERWOOD SENIOR LIVING | $3,000 |
| ST JUDES RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC MINISTRIES APPEAL | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHESTER MEDICAL CENTER | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER2× · 2021–2023 · $105k · revenue +35%
University of San Francisco7× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +14%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +13%
Funded once
GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +84%- CCCAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- GSGirl Scouts of Greater NY Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +0%
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.
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.
The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
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…
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cheryl and Paul Speranza Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cheryl and Paul Speranza Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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