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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.

$159k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$183kHealth$149kPhilanthropy$57kArts & Culture$40kEnvironment$28kReligion$6kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$66,667
SALESMANSHIP CLUB OF DALLAS$24,000
STALLINGS AWARD FOUNDATION$17,500
SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE$10,000
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOU$6,000
DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB$5,500
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY CHILDREN'S HEALTH$5,000
SCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN$5,000
ST SIMONS LAND TRUST$2,500
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA$2,500
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$1,000
HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$500
THE MAGDALEN HOUSE$500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEXAS DPS TROOPER FOUNDATION: $200 → 10%TEXAS DPS TROOPER FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%TEXAS DPS TROOPER FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%COASTAL COALITION FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 14%TEXAS DPS TROOPER FOUNDATION: $50 → 10%TEXAS DPS TROOPER FOUNDATION: $50 → 10%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%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

NY
CO
MO
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$398k · 25 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
28

Total granted

$398k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+77%

Still filing today

52%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +38%
  • PM
    PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
    2× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +34%
  • TS
    THE STALLINGS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +578% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CANOPY CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • PM
    PEROT MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

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
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
3
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.

4
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
5
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Seton Health Foundation Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. founded in community-based legacies of compassionate healing, we…

8
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

9
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
10
St Mary's Good Samaritan Foundation Inc

We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's good samaritan foundation is a member of the trinity health…

11
St Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. peter's hospital foundation is a member of st. peter's health…

12
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Stallings Foundation. 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 backsteadyYouth Development Organizat…Family Philanthropic Founda…Faith-Based Hospital SystemsVulnerable Population Suppo…Education Scholarships & Fo…Christian Ministry Organiza…Basic Needs & Poverty ReliefFamily Crisis Support Servi…Dallas Arts OrganizationsHealthcare System 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 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr18%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr8%36%35–55yr12%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr18%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr8%14%35–55yr12%56%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
17%
3,624/21,376

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

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 59 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $133,334 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF — $21,000 · OtherSALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLFSCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN — $15,000 · Other+44 more — $137,705 · Other+44 moreSalesmanship Club of Dallas — $40,250 · Community ImprovementSalesmans…THE STALLINGS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyThe Stallings Award Foundation — $17,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $2,250 · PhilanthropySOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $26,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $100 · Arts & CultureST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$347,039Community Improvement$40,250Philanthropy$39,750Education$36,000Arts & Culture$26,350Environment$7,500Health$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas — $40,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $26,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STALLINGS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetThe Stallings Award Foundation — $17,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheast Georgia Health System Foundation Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE — $5,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GLYNN COUNTY GA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Legacy Missions International — $1,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS DPS TROOPERS FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Salesmanship Club of Dallas
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
  • Who funds THE STALLINGS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Stallings Award Foundation
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC
  • Who funds DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC
  • Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds Southeast Georgia Health System Foundation Inc
  • Who funds THE MAGDALEN HOUSE
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GLYNN COUNTY GA INC
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC
  • Who funds Family Legacy Missions International
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds LA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Robert H & Susan F Castellini FoundationOH17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Hegi Family Foundation · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Kathrine M & James H Milam Family Charities Inc · Kershaw Foundation · Gene & Jerry Jones Family Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · Davis Love III Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Costello Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Costello Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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