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Costello Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABCCM COSTELLO HOUSE | $250,000 |
| CROSS POINTE OCALA | $63,000 |
| FCA | $5,000 |
| EPISCOPAL FARMWORKER MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| MANCAVE MINISTRY | $4,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| TURNING POINT MINISTRIES | $2,400 |
| I-BIBLE | $1,200 |
| LAMB LION MINISTRIES | $325 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TUTROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +48%
- BUBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +92%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- CSCHARLES SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2017 · $15k
- EFEducation For Life Incone grant, 2023 · $5k
- JCJORDAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL SERVICone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Christian ministry to international students
Christian support for third world countr
Rbc ministries mission is to make the life-changing wisdom of the bible understandable and accessible to all
Our mission is to provide practical ways for you to intimately connect with jesus, the king of kings and the lord of lords. our mission is not to simply provide devotional and resources that accompany you on your journey, but ones that…
Spreading the gospel of jesus christ
Religious ministry
Bring the message of God's love, acceptance and
Religious education
Spreading the gospel of jesus christ to russia and other parts of the world through preaching and teaching.
Walking in Grace seeks, with purpose and passion, to disseminate clear, relevant, orthodox teaching of God's Word using all available means in order to "Advance God's Truth for God's Glory."
To spread the Gospel to the Middle East
Offering compassion, care and christ to children and caregivers with critical physical and spiritual needs so that they can grow in hope
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is I-Bible Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Education For Life Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAN CAVE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds I-Bible Inc ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Costello Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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