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Costello Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Costello Family 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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$226kInternational$147kArts & Culture$15kFood & Nutrition$14kYouth Development$11kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CK-12 Foundation$20,000
Foundation for a College Education$20,000
Americans Serving African Children$20,000
Operation Bootstrap Africa$10,000
Room to Read$5,000
Wells4Wellness$4,000
Boys & Girls Club of Greater San Diego$3,000
East County Youth Symphony$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%International Association For Child Aid: $4k → 11%Southest Texas Food Bank: $5k → 19%Casa de los Pobres USA: $10k → 11%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$387k · 9 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$387k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+17%

Still filing today

78%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CF
    CK-12 Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +13%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $84k · revenue +17%
  • OB
    OPERATION BOOTSTRAP-AFRICA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CD
    Casa De Los Pobres US Agraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +79%
  • GC
    GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +43%
  • JC
    JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -12%
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
International Youth Foundation

Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.

International
2
A Is for Africa Ltd

A is for Africa is an educational foundation focusing education and health among the Maasai people of Tanzania East Africa. Our primary work involves providing educational support to the local government schools in the way of a school…

International
3
Impact Water Foundation

To make safe drinking water available to as many students as possible through scalable and lasting solutions, ensuring every student can learn and thrive with safe water. see schedule o.

Human Services
4
Distant Teaching and Mobile Learning

Developing free advanced educational technologies to benefit students around the world.Our mission is to provide opportunities for kids worldwide to build a foundation for their future by engaging in free educational activities powered by…

Education
5
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
6
Partners in College Success

Partners in College Success (PiCS) ensures equal access to higher education and an equitable college experience for low-income, refugee, immigrant, foster, homeless and disadvantaged youth in San Diego County. PiCS provides dedicated,…

Education
7
Children for Urban and Rural Educat
Human Services
8
Inde Ed Project
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9
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
10
Chemists Without Borders

Chemists without borders is a global humanitarian organization committed to sustainable and equitable solutions that empower communities and improve overall well-being. our strategic framework is: service - developing, facilitating, and…

Science & Tech
11
Creative Minds International Public Charter School

The mission of the charter school is to cultivate within all of our students the mindset, skills, creativity, and commitment to equity essential in becoming globally aware and independently minded citizens.

Education
12
Global Alliance for Africa

In keeping with our mission, our programs focus on: (1) digital learning; (2) community libraries; and (3) therapeutic arts. see schedule o for more detail.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Ck-12 Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CK-12 Foundation: $95,000 · EducationCK-12 FoundationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $83,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATIONROOM TO READ: $19,000 · EducationROOM TO READAMERICANS SERVING AFRICAN CHILDREN INC: $64,000 · OtherAMERICANS SERVING AFRICAN…Guadalupe School: $20,500 · OtherGuadalupe SchoolGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $8,000 · OtherGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIO…Casa de los Pobres: $4,000 · OtherOPERATION BOOTSTRAP-AFRICA: $53,000 · InternationalOPERATION BOOTSTRAP-A…WELLS 4 WELLNESS INC: $26,000 · InternationalWELLS 4 WELLNESS INCCasa De Los Pobres US A: $10,000 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesInternational Association for Child Aid: $4,000 · Human ServicesEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$197,500Other$96,500International$79,000Human Services$19,000Arts & Culture$15,000Youth Development$11,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCK-12 Foundation: $95,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $83,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetOPERATION BOOTSTRAP-AFRICA: $53,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWELLS 4 WELLNESS INC: $26,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetROOM TO READ: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY: $15,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCasa De Los Pobres US A: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Association for Child Aid: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH8.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Costello Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Costello Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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